CovAID: Identification of factors associated with severe COVID-19 in patients with inflammatory rheumatism or autoimmune diseases
Kevin Chevalier, Michaël Genin, Thomas Petit Jean, Jerôme Avouac, Rene-Marc Flipo, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle, Soumaya El Mahou, Edouard Pertuiset, Thao Pham, Amelie Servettaz, Hubert Marotte, Fanny Domont, Pascal Chazerain, Mathilde Devaux, Arsene Mekinian, Jérémie Sellam, Bruno Fautrel, Diane Rouzaud, Esther Ebstein, Nathalie Costedoat-Chalumeau, Christophe Richez, Eric Hachulla, Xavier Mariette, Raphaèle Seror
Frontiers in Medicine, doi:10.3389/fmed.2023.1152587
Results: Among 1,213 patients, 195 (16.1%) experienced severe COVID-19. In multivariate analysis, older age, interstitial lung disease (ILD), arterial hypertension, obesity, sarcoidosis, vasculitis, auto-inflammatory diseases, and treatment with corticosteroids or rituximab were associated with increased risk of severe COVID-19. Among 35,741 COVID-19 patients in EDS, 316 having AIRDs were compared to 1,264 Propensity score-matched controls. AIRD patients had a higher risk of severe ), p = 0.01] but analysis restricted to rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis found no increased risk of severe ].
Conclusion: In this multicenter study, we confirmed that AIRD patients treated with rituximab or corticosteroids and/or having vasculitis, autoinflammatory disease, and sarcoidosis had increased risk of severe COVID-19. Also, AIRD patients had, overall, an increased risk of severe COVID-19 compares general population.
Ethics statement This present study was approved by the institutional review board (APHP Scientific and Ethical Committee, authorization no. CSE 20-60_CovAID) from the Scientific and Ethical Committee of the AP-HP and by the CNIL. Written informed consent for participation was not required for this study in accordance with the national legislation and the institutional requirements.
Author contributions KC collected the data, analyzed them, and wrote the manuscript. RS, XM, and EH designed the study. MG and TJ performed the statistics and help for the data collection. JA, R-MF, SG-L, SE, EP, TP, AS, HM, FD, PC, MD, AM, JS, BF, DR, EE, NC-C, and CR collected data from the patients. All authors reviewed and corrected the manuscript.
Conflict of interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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Supplementary material The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023. 1152587/full#supplementary-material
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