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Prior use of therapeutic anticoagulation does not protect against COVID‐19 related clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients: A propensity score‐matched cohort study
The hypercoagulable state observed in COVID‐19 could be responsible for morbidity and mortality. In this retrospective study we investigated whether therapeutic anticoagulation prior to infection has a beneficial effect in hospitalized COVID‐19 patients. This study included 1154 COVID‐19 patients ad...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33899226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bcp.14877 |
Sumario: | The hypercoagulable state observed in COVID‐19 could be responsible for morbidity and mortality. In this retrospective study we investigated whether therapeutic anticoagulation prior to infection has a beneficial effect in hospitalized COVID‐19 patients. This study included 1154 COVID‐19 patients admitted to 6 hospitals in the Netherlands between March and May 2020. We applied 1:3 propensity score matching to evaluate the association between prior therapeutic anticoagulation use and clinical outcome, with in hospital mortality as primary endpoint. In total, 190 (16%) patients used therapeutic anticoagulation prior to admission. In the propensity score matched analyses, we observed no associations between prior use of therapeutic anticoagulation and overall mortality (risk ratio 1.02 [95% confidence interval; 0.80–1.30]) or length of hospital stay (7.0 [4–12] vs. 7.0 [4–12] days, P = .69), although we observed a lower risk of pulmonary embolism (0.19 [0.05–0.80]). This study shows that prior use of therapeutic anticoagulation is not associated with improved clinical outcome in hospitalized COVID‐19 patients. |
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