{"id":7782,"date":"2020-06-24T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:48:33","slug":"impact-of-glucocorticoid-treatment-in-sars-cov-2-infection-mortality-a-retrospective-controlled-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/impact-of-glucocorticoid-treatment-in-sars-cov-2-infection-mortality-a-retrospective-controlled-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Glucocorticoid Treatment\u00a0In\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 Infection Mortality: A Retrospective Controlled Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a retrospective analysis of 463 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, Fernandez-Cruz et al. found that in-hospital mortality was lower among patients treated with steroids (14%; 55\/396) than in those who were not (24%; 16\/67). Glucocorticoids steroid treatment was associated with a 42% reduction in mortality.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Fern\u00e1ndez<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Cruz et al. (June 22, 2020).\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Impact of Glucocorticoid Treatment\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">In<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 Infection Mortality: A Retrospective Controlled Cohort Study.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/AAC.01168-20\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/AAC.01168-20<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a retrospective analysis of 463 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, Fernandez-Cruz et al. found that in-hospital mortality was lower among patients treated with steroids (14%; 55\/396) than in those who were not (24%; 16\/67). Glucocorticoids steroid treatment was associated with a 42% reduction in mortality.\u00a0 Fern\u00e1ndez\u00a0Cruz et al. (June 22, 2020).\u00a0Impact of Glucocorticoid Treatment\u00a0In\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 Infection Mortality:&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/impact-of-glucocorticoid-treatment-in-sars-cov-2-infection-mortality-a-retrospective-controlled-cohort-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7783,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}