Risk of COVID‐19 in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A National Veterans Affairs Matched Cohort Study in At‐Risk Individuals
| العنوان: | Risk of COVID‐19 in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A National Veterans Affairs Matched Cohort Study in At‐Risk Individuals |
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| المؤلفون: | Bryant R. England, Andre C. Kalil, Brian C. Sauer, Kaleb Michaud, Ted R. Mikuls, Joshua F. Baker, Punyasha Roul, Yangyuna Yang, Geoffrey M. Thiele |
| المصدر: | Arthritis & Rheumatology (Hoboken, N.j.) |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | rheumatoid arthritis, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Full Length, Immunology, Veterans Health, Risk Assessment, Severity of Illness Index, SARS‐CoV‐2, Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Rheumatology, COVID‐19, Prednisone, Internal medicine, Epidemiology, Humans, Immunology and Allergy, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Veterans Affairs, Aged, Retrospective Studies, 030203 arthritis & rheumatology, business.industry, Proportional hazards model, Hazard ratio, Autoantibody, COVID-19, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, Hospitalization, Rheumatoid arthritis, epidemiology, Female, business, medicine.drug |
| الوصف: | Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its treatments are associated with an increased risk of infection, but it remains unclear whether these factors have an impact on the risk or severity of COVID-19. The present study was undertaken to assess the risk and severity of COVID-19 in a US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) cohort of patients with RA and those without RA.A matched cohort study using national VA data was conducted. Patients diagnosed as having RA were identified among nondeceased individuals who were active in the VA health care system as of January 1, 2020 and who had received care in a VA medical center in 2019; patients for whom no RA diagnostic code was indicated were matched to the RA patients (1:1) by age, sex, and VA site (non-RA controls). Patients diagnosed as having COVID-19 and those with severe COVID-19 (defined as requiring hospitalization or leading to death) were ascertained from a national VA COVID-19 surveillance database through December 10, 2020. Multivariable Cox models were used to compare the risk of COVID-19 and COVID-19 hospitalization or death between RA patients and non-RA controls, after adjusting for demographic characteristics, comorbidities, health care utilization and access, and county-level COVID-19 incidence rates.This VA cohort of RA patients and non-RA controls (n = 33,886 subjects per group) predominantly comprised male patients (84.5%), and the mean age was 67.8 years. During follow-up, 1,503 patients in the cohort were diagnosed as having COVID-19; among them, 388 patients had severe COVID-19 (hospitalization or death), while in 228 patients, the deaths were not related to COVID-19. In the multivariable model, RA was associated with a higher risk of COVID-19 (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.25 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.13-1.39]) and a higher risk of COVID-19 hospitalization or death (adjusted HR 1.35 [95% CI 1.10-1.66]) as compared to non-RA controls. Use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and prednisone, as well as self-reported Black race, self-reported Hispanic ethnicity, and presence of several chronic conditions, but not seropositivity for RA autoantibodies, were each associated with risk of COVID-19 and severe COVID-19 (hospitalization or death).Patients with RA are at higher risk of developing COVID-19 and severe COVID-19 (leading to hospitalization or death) compared to those without RA. With a risk of COVID-19 that approaches that of other recognized chronic conditions, these findings suggest that RA patients should be prioritized for COVID-19 prevention and management strategies. |
| تدمد: | 2326-5205 2326-5191 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::80f623ae9eea99be49f7f857ed932c67Test https://doi.org/10.1002/art.41800Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....80f623ae9eea99be49f7f857ed932c67 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23265205 23265191 |
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