{"id":9662,"date":"2021-05-07T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:09:17","slug":"risk-of-covid-19-in-rheumatoid-arthritis-a-national-veterans-affairs-matched-cohort-study-in-at-risk-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/risk-of-covid-19-in-rheumatoid-arthritis-a-national-veterans-affairs-matched-cohort-study-in-at-risk-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of COVID-19 in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A National Veterans\u00a0 Affairs Matched Cohort Study in At-Risk Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A matched cohort study of US veterans (N=66,772) found that persons with rheumatoid arthritis had\u00a0 a higher risk of COVID-19 disease (HR=1.25) and COVID-19 associated hospitalization or death\u00a0 (HR=1.35) compared to age-, sex-, and Veterans Administration-site-matched persons without\u00a0 rheumatoid arthritis. Persons on immunosuppressant drugs (DMARDS and prednisone) had the highest risk of COVID-19 and severe disease after controlling for demographics, other comorbidities,\u00a0 healthcare utilization, and county-level COVID-19 incidence. The authors suggest that persons with rheumatoid arthritis should be prioritized for COVID-19 prevention and management.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">England et al. (May 5, 2021). Risk of COVID-19 in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A National Veterans\u00a0 Affairs Matched Cohort Study in At-Risk Individuals. Arthritis &amp; Rheumatology.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/art.41800\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/art.41800<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A matched cohort study of US veterans (N=66,772) found that persons with rheumatoid arthritis had\u00a0 a higher risk of COVID-19 disease (HR=1.25) and COVID-19 associated hospitalization or death\u00a0 (HR=1.35) compared to age-, sex-, and Veterans Administration-site-matched persons without\u00a0 rheumatoid arthritis. Persons on immunosuppressant drugs (DMARDS and prednisone) had the highest risk of COVID-19 and severe&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/risk-of-covid-19-in-rheumatoid-arthritis-a-national-veterans-affairs-matched-cohort-study-in-at-risk-individuals\/\">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":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662","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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}