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0 0.5 1 1.5 2+ Mortality 35% Improvement Relative Risk c19hcq.org Menardi et al. HCQ for COVID-19 LATE TREATMENT Is late treatment with HCQ beneficial for COVID-19? Retrospective 277 patients in Italy Lower mortality with HCQ (not stat. sig., p=0.12) Menardi et al., PharmAdvances, doi:10.36118/pharmadvances.2021.15 Favors HCQ Favors control
A retrospective analysis on pharmacological approaches to COVID-19 patients in an Italian hub hospital during the early phase of the pandemic
Menardi et al., PharmAdvances, doi:10.36118/pharmadvances.2021.15
Menardi et al., A retrospective analysis on pharmacological approaches to COVID-19 patients in an Italian hub hospital during.., PharmAdvances, doi:10.36118/pharmadvances.2021.15
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Retrospective 277 hospitalized patients in Italy, showing lower mortality with HCQ treatment, not reaching statistical significance, and subject to confounding by indication. This study is excluded in the after exclusion results of meta analysis: excessive unadjusted differences between groups; substantial unadjusted confounding by indication likely.
risk of death, 35.2% lower, RR 0.65, p = 0.12, treatment 32 of 200 (16.0%), control 19 of 77 (24.7%), NNT 12.
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Menardi et al., 30 Sep 2021, retrospective, Italy, peer-reviewed, 10 authors.
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Abstract: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Volume 3, issue 3, 2021: 577-85 A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS ON PHARMACOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO COVID-19 PATIENTS IN AN ITALIAN HUB HOSPITAL DURING THE EARLY PHASE OF THE PANDEMIC G. Menardi1, L. Infante2, V. Del Bono3, L. Fenoglio4, D. Collotta1, P. Macagno5, C. Bedogni5, M. Rebora5, C. Fruttero2, M. Collino6 Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Hospital Pharmacy, S. Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy 3 Division of Infection Disease, S. Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy 4 Division of Internal Medicine, S. Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy 5 General Manager, S. Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy 6 Rita Levi-Montalcini Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Turin, Italy 1 2 E-mail: massimo.collino@unito.it Doi: 10.36118/pharmadvances.2021.15 SUMMARY COVID-19 is a complex, multi-organ systemic disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus whose pathophysiological basis and pharmacological approaches are still to be defined. Our study aims to retrospectively evaluate the role played by clinical and demographic variables as well as the specific therapies administered in COVID-19 patients admitted to a referral Hospital in Northern Italy (Santa Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo) during the COVID-19 first epidemic wave. We analyzed data from 277 patients with virological diagnosis of COVID-19 who were admitted to the hospital from February 20th to April 30th 2020. The inpatients’ pharmacological treatments and clinical outcomes were assessed up to May 31st 2020. Correlations between pharmacological treatments as well as clinical and demographic variables and clinical outcomes have been performed. Several drugs were used in different dosages and combinations. In the first weeks of the epidemic, the most widely used drugs were hydroxychloroquine and the antivirals lopinavir/ritonavir and darunavir/cobicistat, then replaced by corticosteroids and heparin derivatives. Supplementation with vitamin C, D, or polyvitamins exerted a slight, but not significant, increase in survival rate, mainly in patients over 65 years old. Results showed that age and comorbidities significantly affected the survival as shown by the Charlson Comorbidity Index which was significantly higher in patients who died than in those who survived, thus confirming that victims of the disease were mostly debilitated and elderly people. The most influencing COVID-19 survival factors here recorded were age and comorbidities. No statistically significant differences were detected among the different pharmacological treatments used in our clinical setting during the first epidemic wave. Impact statement No significant differences have been recorded in terms of efficacy among the several pharmacological approaches used during the first epidemic way in an Italian hub hospital. Key words COVID-19; Italian hub hospital; pharmacological treatments; comorbidities. © 2021 The Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF). Published by EDRA SPA. All rights reserved 577 G. MENARDI, L. INFANTE, V. DEL BONO, ET AL.
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