Hydroxychloroquine for treatment of non-hospitalized adults with COVID-19 : A meta-analysis of individual participant data of randomized trials

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Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was initially promoted as an oral therapy for early treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Conventional meta-analyses cannot fully address the heterogeneity of different designs and outcomes of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing the efficacy of HCQ in outpatients with mild COVID-19. We conducted a pooled analysis of individual participant data from RCTs that evaluated the effect of HCQ on hospitalization and viral load reduction in outpatients with confirmed COVID-19. We evaluated the overall treatment group effect by log-likelihood ratio test (-2LL) from a generalized linear mixed model to accommodate correlated longitudinal binary data. The analysis included data from 11 RCTs. The outcome of virological effect, assessed in 1560 participants (N = 795 HCQ, N = 765 control), did not differ significantly between the two treatment groups (-2LL = 7.66; p = 0.18) when adjusting for cohort, duration of symptoms, and comorbidities. The decline in polymerase chain reaction positive tests from day 1 to 7 was 42.0 and 41.6 percentage points in the HCQ and control groups, respectively. Among the 2037 participants evaluable for hospitalization (N = 1058 HCQ, N = 979 control), we found no significant differences in hospitalization rate between participants receiving HCQ and controls (odds ratio 0.995; 95% confidence interval 0.614-1.610; -2LL = 0.0; p = 0.98) when adjusting for cohort, duration of symptoms, and comorbidities. This individual participant data meta-analysis of 11 HCQ trials that evaluated severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 viral clearance and COVID-19 hospitalization did not show a clinical benefit of HCQ. Our meta-analysis provides evidence to support the interruption in the use of HCQ in mild COVID-19 outpatients to reduce progression to severe disease.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

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Clinical and translational science - 16(2023), 3 vom: 18. März, Seite 524-535

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mitjà, Oriol [VerfasserIn]
Reis, Gilmar [VerfasserIn]
Boulware, David R [VerfasserIn]
Spivak, Adam M [VerfasserIn]
Sarwar, Ammar [VerfasserIn]
Johnston, Christine [VerfasserIn]
Webb, Brandon [VerfasserIn]
Hill, Michael D [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Davey [VerfasserIn]
Kremsner, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Curran, Marla [VerfasserIn]
Carter, David [VerfasserIn]
Alexander, Jim [VerfasserIn]
Corbacho, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Todd C [VerfasserIn]
Hullsiek, Katherine Huppler [VerfasserIn]
McDonald, Emily G [VerfasserIn]
Hess, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
Hughes, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Baeten, Jared M [VerfasserIn]
Schwartz, Ilan [VerfasserIn]
Metz, Luanne [VerfasserIn]
Richer, Lawrence [VerfasserIn]
Chew, Kara W [VerfasserIn]
Daar, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Wohl, David [VerfasserIn]
Dunne, Michael [VerfasserIn]

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Hydroxychloroquine
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
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Date Completed 27.03.2023

Date Revised 14.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/cts.13468

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351128557