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Chronic Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and COVID-19 Outcomes: A Retrospective Case-Control Analysis

Rangel et al., Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2020.10.098
Rangel et al., Chronic Hydroxychloroquine Therapy and COVID-19 Outcomes: A Retrospective Case-Control Analysis, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2020.10.098
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Retrospective 50 COVID-19 patients that take chronic HCQ, compared to a matched sample of patients not taking chronic HCQ, showing lower mortality and ICU admission, and shorter hospitalization for HCQ patients, but not statistically significant due to the small number of events.
The actual benefit for HCQ could be much larger. The study does not address the risk of being sick enough to visit the hospital. HCQ users are likely systemic autoimmune disease patients and authors do not adjust for the very different baseline risk for these patients. Other research shows that the risk of COVID-19 for systemic autoimmune disease patients is much higher overall, Ferri et al. show OR 4.42, p<0.001 [Ferri].
Although the 25% lower mortality is not statistically significant, it is consistent with the significant 24% lower mortality [19‑28%] from meta analysis of the 237 mortality results to date. This study is excluded in the after exclusion results of meta analysis: not fully adjusting for the different baseline risk of systemic autoimmune patients.
risk of death, 25.1% lower, RR 0.75, p = 0.77, treatment 4 of 50 (8.0%), control 11 of 103 (10.7%), NNT 37, from all patients.
risk of hospitalization, 22.2% lower, RR 0.78, p = 0.29, treatment 17 of 50 (34.0%), control 45 of 103 (43.7%), NNT 10.
hospitalization time, 41.2% lower, relative time 0.59, p = 0.12, treatment 21, control 54.
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Rangel et al., 10 Jan 2021, retrospective, USA, peer-reviewed, 5 authors.
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Abstract: J AM ACAD DERMATOL VOLUME 84, NUMBER 6 Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts.e Drs Hartman and La are cofirst authors. Funding sources: Supported by an American Skin Association research grant (120795 to Dr Hartman). IRB approval status: Not applicable. Reprints not available from the authors. Correspondence to: Rebecca I. Hartman, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, BWH Department of Dermatology, 221 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02215 E-mail: rhartman@bwh.harvard.edu Conflicts of interest None disclosed. REFERENCES 1. Faries MB, Thompson JF, Cochran AJ, et al. Completion dissection or observation for sentinel-node metastasis in melanoma. N Engl J Med. 2017;376(23):2211-2222. 2. Wei EX, Chen L, Ma F, Keri J, Hu S. Recent dermatology visit is associated with thinner Breslow depth nodular melanomas. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2019;80(4):1143-1144. 3. Roetzheim RG, Lee JH, Ferrante JM, et al. The influence of dermatologist and primary care physician visits on melanoma outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries. J Am Board Fam Med. 2013;26(6):637-647. 4. Jackson GL, Melton LD, Abbott DH, et al. Quality of nonmetastatic colorectal cancer care in the Department of Veterans Affairs. J Clin Oncol. 2010;28(19):3176-3181. 5. Orkaby AR, Nussbaum L, Ho YL, et al. The burden of frailty among U.S. veterans and its association with mortality, 2002-2012. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2019;74(8): 1257-1264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2020.12.069 Chronic hydroxychloroquine therapy and COVID-19 outcomes: A retrospective case-control analysis To the Editor: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has failed to show significant therapeutic benefit for patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) in recent studies, although interest in this medication’s potential pre- and postprophylactic efficacy remains, with 1 retrospective study showing reduced COVID-19 infection among patients taking chronic HCQ.1,2 In this study, we sought to evaluate COVID-19 clinical outcomes in patients taking chronic HCQ for an underlying condition as well as in a matched cohort not taking HCQ at time of COVID-19 diagnosis. Research Letters 1769 Table I. Hydroxychloroquine indication, dosage, and duration at time of COVID-19 diagnosis HCQ indication, dosage, and duration (N = 50) HCQ indication Systemic lupus erythematosus Rheumatoid arthritis Connective tissue disease overlap syndromes €gren syndrome Sjo Mixed connective tissue disease Undifferentiated connective tissue disease Erythema nodosum during pregnancy Carcinoid Myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome Acquired hypogammaglobulinemia HCQ dosage 200 mg HCQ daily 200 mg HCQ 2 times daily (400 mg total) 200 mg HCQ 3 times daily (600 mg total) Mean duration of HCQ therapy before COVID-19 diagnosis (IQR) n (%) 17 (34.0) 11 (22.0) 9 (18.0) 6 (12.0) 2 (4.0) 1 (2.0) 1 (2.0) 1 (2.0) 1 (2.0) 1 (2.0) 13 (36.0) 36 (72.0) 1 (2.0) 28 (14.25-44.25) months COVID-19, Coronavirus disease-2019; HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; IQR, interquartile range. We identified all patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 seen at New York University from March to April 2020 using International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision codes and included patients taking HCQ for $6 weeks before their COVID-19 diagnosis. Control subjects were randomly selected from the remaining severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2epositive patients with automated matching for age, gender, and immunosuppressive medication using..
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