1. Psoriasis-related treatment exposure and hospitalization or in-hospital mortality due to COVID-19 during the first and second wave of the pandemic: cohort study of 1 326 312 patients in France
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Mahmoud Zureik, Rosemary Dray-Spira, Emilie Sbidian, L Penso, Alain Weill, Epidemiology in Dermatology and Evaluation in Therapeutics (EpiDermE), Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), EPI-PHARE (EPI-PHARE), Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie des travailleurs salariés [CNAMTS]-Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé [Saint-Denis] (ANSM), Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs salariés (CNAMTS), Ministère de l'économie et des finances, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Service de dermatologie [Mondor], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Centre d'Investigation Clinique Henri Mondor (CIC Henri Mondor), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des Produits de Santé, ANSM, sources L.P. received a doctoral grant from the French National Agency for Drug and Health Product Safety (ANSM). No other funding is declared.The authors are indebted to Laura Smales for English editing., and HAL UVSQ, Équipe
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Epidemiology ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Dermatology ,Cohort Studies ,Psoriasis ,Internal medicine ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Clinical endpoint ,Humans ,Hospital Mortality ,Pandemics ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,Proportional hazards model ,Hazard ratio ,COVID-19 ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Confidence interval ,[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Hospitalization ,Commentary ,France ,business ,Cohort study - Abstract
Summary Background Data on treatment exposures for psoriasis and poor COVID‐19 outcomes are limited. Objectives To assess the risk of hospitalization or in‐hospital mortality due to COVID‐19 by treatment exposure in patients with psoriasis. Methods All adults with psoriasis registered in the French national health‐insurance (Système National des Données de Santé, SNDS) database between 2008 and 2019 were eligible. Two study periods were considered: 15 February to 30 June 2020 and 1 October 2020 to 31 January 2021, the first and second waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in France, respectively. Patients were classified according to their baseline treatment: biologics, nonbiologics, topicals or no treatment. The primary endpoint was hospitalization for COVID‐19 using Cox models with inverse probability of treatment weighting. The secondary endpoint was in‐hospital mortality due to COVID‐19. Results We identified 1 326 312 patients with psoriasis (mean age 59 years; males, 48%). During the first study period, 3871 patients were hospitalized for COVID‐19 and 759 (20%) died; during the second period 3603 were hospitalized for COVID‐19 and 686 (19%) died. In the propensity score‐weighted Cox models, risk of hospitalization for COVID‐19 was associated with exposure to topicals or nonbiologics [hazard ratio (95% confidence interval): 1·11 (1·04–1·20) and 1·27 (1·09–1·48), respectively] during the first period, and with all exposure types, during the second period. None of the exposure types was associated with in‐hospital mortality due to COVID‐19. Conclusions Systemic treatments for psoriasis (including biologics) were not associated with increased risk of in‐hospital mortality due to COVID‐19. These results support maintaining systemic treatment for psoriasis during the pandemic., What is already known about this topic? Almost all chronic diseases have emerged as risk factors for hospitalization for COVID‐19 and poor COVID‐19 outcomes.Multimorbidity is frequent in psoriasis. In France, psoriasis was found to be associated with increased risk of hospitalization for COVID‐19 but not in‐hospital mortality due to COVID‐19.Biologics are associated with an increased risk of infection. Few data have been published on the course of COVID‐19 in patients with psoriasis receiving biologics. What does this study add? Systemic treatments for psoriasis (including nonbiologics and biologics) were not associated with an increased risk of in‐hospital mortality due to COVID‐19.Our results did not support a prophylactic effect of long‐term use of biologics on risk of hospitalization for COVID‐19 or in‐hospital mortality.These results provide evidence supporting the continuity of care for psoriasis and maintaining systemic treatment for psoriasis during the pandemic.
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- 2022