EFFECT OF PAXLOVID TREATMENT DURING ACUTE COVID-19 ON LONG COVID ONSET : AN EHR-BASED TARGET TRIAL EMULATION FROM THE N3C AND RECOVER CONSORTIA

Preventing and treating post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), commonly known as Long COVID, has become a public health priority. In this study, we examined whether treatment with Paxlovid in the acute phase of COVID-19 helps prevent the onset of PASC. We used electronic health records from the National Covid Cohort Collaborative (N3C) to define a cohort of 426,352 patients who had COVID-19 since April 1, 2022, and were eligible for Paxlovid treatment due to risk for progression to severe COVID-19. We used the target trial emulation (TTE) framework to estimate the effect of Paxlovid treatment on PASC incidence. We estimated overall PASC incidence using a computable phenotype. We also measured the onset of novel cognitive, fatigue, and respiratory symptoms in the post-acute period. Paxlovid treatment did not have a significant effect on overall PASC incidence (relative risk [RR] = 0.98, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.95-1.01). However, it had a protective effect on cognitive (RR = 0.90, 95% CI 0.84-0.96) and fatigue (RR = 0.95, 95% CI 0.91-0.98) symptom clusters, which suggests that the etiology of these symptoms may be more closely related to viral load than that of respiratory symptoms.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences - (2024) vom: 04. Apr.

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Englisch

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Preiss, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Bhatia, Abhishek [VerfasserIn]
Aragon, Leyna V [VerfasserIn]
Baratta, John M [VerfasserIn]
Baskaran, Monika [VerfasserIn]
Blancero, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Brannock, M Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Chew, Robert F [VerfasserIn]
Díaz, Iván [VerfasserIn]
Fitzgerald, Megan [VerfasserIn]
Kelly, Elizabeth P [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Carton, Thomas W [VerfasserIn]
Chute, Christopher G [VerfasserIn]
Haendel, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Moffitt, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Pfaff, Emily [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1101/2024.01.20.24301525

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NLM368340120