Mortality risk after COVID-19 vaccination : A self-controlled case series study

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BACKGROUND: Although previous studies found no-increased mortality risk after COVID-19 vaccination, residual confounding bias might have impacted the findings. Using a modified self-controlled case series (SCCS) design, we assessed the risk of non-COVID-19 mortality, all-cause mortality, and four cardiac-related death outcomes after primary series COVID-19 vaccination.

METHODS: We analyzed all deaths between December 14, 2020, and August 11, 2021, among individuals from eight Vaccine Safety Datalink sites. Demographic characteristics of deaths in recipients of COVID-19 vaccines and unvaccinated individuals were reported. We conducted SCCS analyses by vaccine type and death outcomes and reported relative incidences (RI). The observation period for death spanned from the dates of emergency use authorization to the end of the study period (August 11, 2021) without censoring the observation period upon death. We pre-specified a primary risk interval of 28-day and a secondary risk interval of 14-day after each vaccination dose. Adjusting for seasonality in mortality analyses is crucial because death rates vary over time. Deaths among unvaccinated individuals were included in SCCS analyses to account for seasonality by incorporating calendar month in the models.

RESULTS: For Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2), RIs of non-COVID-19 mortality, all-cause mortality, and four cardiac-related death outcomes were below 1 and 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) excluded 1 across both doses and both risk intervals. For Moderna (mRNA-1273), RI point estimates of all outcomes were below 1, although the 95 % CIs of two RI estimates included 1: cardiac-related (RI = 0.78, 95 % CI, 0.58-1.04) and non-COVID-19 cardiac-related mortality (RI = 0.80, 95 % CI, 0.60-1.08) 14 days after the second dose in individuals without pre-existing cancer and heart disease. For Janssen (Ad26.COV2.S), RIs of four cardiac-related death outcomes ranged from 0.94 to 0.98 for the 14-day risk interval, and 0.68 to 0.72 for the 28-day risk interval and 95 % CIs included 1.

CONCLUSION: Using a modified SCCS design and adjusting for temporal trends, no-increased risk was found for non-COVID-19 mortality, all-cause mortality, and four cardiac-related death outcomes among recipients of the three COVID-19 vaccines used in the US.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Vaccine - 42(2024), 7 vom: 07. März, Seite 1731-1737

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xu, Stanley [VerfasserIn]
Sy, Lina S [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Vennis [VerfasserIn]
Farrington, Paddy [VerfasserIn]
Glenn, Sungching C [VerfasserIn]
Ryan, Denison S [VerfasserIn]
Shirley, Abraelle M [VerfasserIn]
Lewin, Bruno J [VerfasserIn]
Tseng, Hung-Fu [VerfasserIn]
Vazquez-Benitez, Gabriela [VerfasserIn]
Glanz, Jason M [VerfasserIn]
Fireman, Bruce [VerfasserIn]
McClure, David L [VerfasserIn]
Hurley, Laura P [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Onchee [VerfasserIn]
Wernecke, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Weintraub, Eric S [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Lei [VerfasserIn]

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Ad26COVS1
All-cause mortality
BNT162 Vaccine
COVID-19 Vaccines
COVID-19 vaccines
Cardiac-related mortality
JT2NS6183B
Journal Article
Non-COVID-19 mortality
Self-controlled case series

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Date Completed 18.03.2024

Date Revised 18.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.032

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NLM368782247