Persistent Steroid Exposure Before Coronavirus Disease 2019 Diagnosis and Risk of Hospitalization in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Background: It is unclear whether persistent inhaled steroid exposure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with hospitalization risk.

Objective: Our objective was to examine the association between persistent steroid exposure and COVID-19-related hospitalization risk in COPD patients.

Study Design and Methods: This retrospective cohort study used electronic health records from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California health care system (February 2, 2020, to September 30, 2020) for patients aged ≥40 years with COPD and a positive polymerase chain reaction test result for COVID-19. Primary exposure was persistent oral and/or inhaled steroid exposure defined as ≥6 months of prescriptions filled in the year before the COVID-19 diagnosis. Multivariable logistic regression was performed for the primary outcome of COVID-19-related hospitalization or death/hospice referral. Steroid exposure in the month before a COVID-19 diagnosis was a covariate.

Results: Of >4.3 million adults, 697 had COVID-19 and COPD, of whom 270 (38.7%) had COVID-19-related hospitalizations. Overall, 538 (77.2%) were neither exposed to steroids in the month before COVID-19 diagnosis nor persistently exposed; 53 (7.6%) were exposed in the month before but not persistently; 23 (3.3%) were exposed persistently but not in the month before; and 83 (11.9%) were exposed both persistently and in the month before. Adjusting for all confounders including steroid use in the month before, the odds ratio for hospitalization was 0.77 (95% confidence interval 0.41-1.46) for patients persistently exposed to steroids before a COVID-19 diagnosis.

Interpretation: No association was observed between persistent steroid exposure and the risk of COVID-19-related hospitalization in COPD patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) - 10(2023), 1 vom: 25. Jan., Seite 64-76

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Myers, Laura C [VerfasserIn]
Murray, Richard K [VerfasserIn]
Donato, Bonnie M K [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Vincent X [VerfasserIn]
Kipnis, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Shaikh, Asif [VerfasserIn]
Franchino-Elder, Jessica [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Copd
Coronavirus disease 2019
Journal Article
Steroids

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 10.03.2023

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.15326/jcopdf.2022.0351

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349850682