Real-Life Impact of Glucocorticoid Treatment in COVID-19 Mortality : A Multicenter Retrospective Study

We aimed to determine the impact of steroid use in COVID-19 in-hospital mortality, in a retrospective cohort study of the SEMICOVID19 database of admitted patients with SARS-CoV-2 laboratory-confirmed pneumonia from 131 Spanish hospitals. Patients treated with corticosteroids were compared to patients not treated with corticosteroids; and adjusted using a propensity-score for steroid treatment. From March-July 2020, 5.262 (35.26%) were treated with corticosteroids and 9.659 (64.73%) were not. In-hospital mortality overall was 20.50%; it was higher in patients treated with corticosteroids than in controls (28.5% versus 16.2%, OR 2.068 [95% confidence interval; 1.908 to 2.242]; p = 0.0001); however, when adjusting by occurrence of ARDS, mortality was significantly lower in the steroid group (43.4% versus 57.6%; OR 0.564 [95% confidence interval; 0.503 to 0.633]; p = 0.0001). Moreover, the greater the respiratory failure, the greater the impact on mortality of the steroid treatment. When adjusting these results including the propensity score as a covariate, in-hospital mortality remained significantly lower in the steroid group (OR 0.774 [0.660 to 0.907], p = 0.002). Steroid treatment reduced mortality by 24% relative to no steroid treatment (RRR 0.24). These results support the use of glucocorticoids in COVID-19 in this subgroup of patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical medicine - 10(2021), 20 vom: 13. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Muñoz-Gómez, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Cruz, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Lavilla-Olleros, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Giner-Galvañ, Vicente [VerfasserIn]
Ausín-García, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Wikman, Philip [VerfasserIn]
Bendala-Estrada, Alejandro D [VerfasserIn]
Vargas, Juan A [VerfasserIn]
Rubio-Rivas, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Laureiro, Jaime [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Bermúdez, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Buonaiuto, Verónica A [VerfasserIn]
Arenas de Larriva, Antonio P [VerfasserIn]
Pascual-Pérez, María de Los Reyes [VerfasserIn]
Alcalá-Pedrajas, José N [VerfasserIn]
Labirua-Iturburu Ruiz, Ane [VerfasserIn]
Hernández-Milián, Almudena [VerfasserIn]
Gómez Del Mazo, Marta [VerfasserIn]
Antequera, Beatriz [VerfasserIn]
Mella-Pérez, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Navas-Alcántara, María de la Sierra [VerfasserIn]
Soto-Delgado, Juan F [VerfasserIn]
Gámez-Mancera, Rosa M [VerfasserIn]
Sardiña-González, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Meijide-Míguez, Héctor [VerfasserIn]
Ramos-Rincón, José M [VerfasserIn]
Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo [VerfasserIn]
On Behalf Of The Semi-Covid-Network [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Corticosteroids
Journal Article
Mortality
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Revised 26.10.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/jcm10204678

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332229432