Optimal Duration of Systemic Corticosteroids in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Autor: Ssentongo P; Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA., Yu N; Division of Infectious Diseases, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA., Voleti N; Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA., Reddy S; Department of Medicine, Osmania Medical College, Telangana, Hyderabad, India., Ingram D; Division of Infectious Diseases, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA., Chinchilli VM; Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA., Paules CI; Division of Infectious Diseases, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Open forum infectious diseases [Open Forum Infect Dis] 2023 Feb 24; Vol. 10 (3), pp. ofad105. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 24 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofad105
Abstrakt: Background: Corticosteroids confer a survival benefit in individuals hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who require oxygen. This meta-analysis seeks to determine the duration of corticosteroids needed to optimize this mortality benefit.
Methods: Electronic databases were searched to 9 March 2022, for studies reporting corticosteroid versus no corticosteroid treatment in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. We estimated the effect of corticosteroids on mortality by random-effects meta-analyses. Subgroup analyses and meta-analyses were conducted to assess the optimal duration of corticosteroid treatment while adjusting for the severity of disease, age, duration of symptoms, and proportion of control group given steroids.
Results: We identified 27 eligible studies consisting of 13 404 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Seven randomized controlled trials and 20 observational studies were included in the meta-analysis of mortality, which suggested a protective association with corticosteroid therapy (risk ratio [RR], 0.71 [95% confidence interval {CI}, .58-.87]). Pooled analysis of 18 studies showed the greatest survival benefit for a treatment duration up to 6 days (RR, 0.54 [95% CI, .39-.74]). Survival benefit was 0.65 (95% CI, .51-.83) up to 7 days, and no additional survival benefit was observed beyond 7 days of treatment (RR, 0.64 [95% CI, .44-.93]). The survival benefit was not confounded by severity of disease, age, duration of symptoms, or proportion of control group given steroids.
Conclusions: In this meta-analysis, optimal duration of corticosteroid treatment for hospitalized COVID-19 patients was up to 6 days, with no additional survival benefit with >7 days of treatment.
Competing Interests: Potential conflicts of interest. All authors: No reported conflicts.
(© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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