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Colchicine Is Safe Though Ineffective in the Treatment of Severe COVID-19: a Randomized Clinical Trial (COLCHIVID)

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Colchicine for COVID-19

5th treatment shown to reduce risk in September 2020, now with p = 0.00000031 from 56 studies.

Lower risk for mortality, ICU admission, hospitalization, and recovery.

No treatment is 100% effective. Protocols combine treatments.

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Very late stage RCT with 56 colchicine and 60 control patients in Mexico, showing no significant differences.

Although the 29% lower mortality is not statistically significant, it is consistent with the significant 28% lower mortality [17‑37%] from meta analysis of the 43 mortality results to date.

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risk of death, 28.6% lower, RR 0.71, p = 0.74, treatment 4 of 56 (7.1%), control 6 of 60 (10.0%), NNT 35.

progression to critical or death, 17.0% lower, OR 0.83, p = 0.67, treatment 56, control 60, primary outcome, RR approximated with OR.

risk of no recovery, 13.0% higher, RR 1.13, p = 0.59, treatment 56, control 60, Kaplan–Meier.

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Colchicine Is Safe Though Ineffective in the Treatment of Severe COVID-19: a Randomized Clinical Trial (COLCHIVID)

MD Abdiel Absalón-Aguilar, MD Marina Rull-Gabayet, MD Alfredo Pérez-Fragoso, PhD Nancy R Mejía-Domínguez, PhD Carlos Núñez-Álvarez, MD, PhD David Kershenobich-Stalnikowitz, MD José Sifuentes-Osornio, MD Alfredo Ponce-De-León, MD, MSc Fernanda González-Lara, MD, MSc Eduardo Martín-Nares, MD Sharon Montesinos-Ramírez, MD Martha Ramírez-Alemón, MD Pamela Ramírez-Rangel, MD Manlio F Márquez, Juan Carlos Plata-Corona, Guillermo Juárez-Vega, MD, PhD Diana Gómez-Martín, MD, PhD Jiram Torres-Ruiz

Journal of General Internal Medicine, doi:10.1007/s11606-021-07203-8

BACKGROUND: Colchicine is an available, safe, and effective anti-inflammatory drug and has been suggested as a COVID-19 treatment, but its usefulness in hospitalized severe COVID-19 patients has not been thoroughly demonstrated. OBJECTIVE: To address the safety and efficacy of colchicine in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19. DESIGN: We conducted a triple-blind parallel nonstratified placebo-controlled clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS: We recruited 116 hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 in Mexico. INTERVENTIONS: Patients were randomized to receive 1.5 mg of colchicine or placebo at the time of the recruitment in the study (baseline) and 0.5 mg BID PO to complete 10 days of treatment. MAIN MEASURES: The primary composite outcome was the progression to critical disease or death. Besides, we evaluated immunological features at baseline and after recovery or disease progression in 20 patients. KEY RESULTS: Fifty-six patients were allocated to colchicine and 60 patients received placebo. The study was suspended after the second interim analysis demonstrated colchicine had no effect on the primary outcome (OR 0.83, 95%CI 0.35-1.93, P = 0.67), nor in the days of ICU and hospital stays. Adverse events were similar between groups (OR 1.63, 95% CI 0.66-3.88, P = 0.37). After colchicine treatment, patients had higher BUN and lower serum levels of IL-8, IL-12p70, and IL-17A.

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