SSRI use during acute COVID-19 and risk of Long COVID among patients with depression
Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Yunwen Ji, Sarang Deshpande, Eric Hurwitz, A Jerrod Anzalone, Jeremy Coyle, Junming Shi, Andrew Mertens, Mark J Van Der Laan, John M Colford Jr, Rena C Patel, Alan E Hubbard
BMC Medicine, doi:10.1186/s12916-024-03655-x
Background Long COVID, also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), is a poorly understood condition with symptoms across a range of biological domains that often have debilitating consequences. Some have recently suggested that lingering SARS-CoV-2 virus particles in the gut may impede serotonin production and that low serotonin may drive many Long COVID symptoms across a range of biological systems. Therefore, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which increase synaptic serotonin availability, may be used to prevent or treat Long COVID. SSRIs are commonly prescribed for depression, therefore restricting a study sample to only include patients with depression can reduce the concern of confounding by indication.
Methods In an observational sample of electronic health records from patients in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) with a COVID-19 diagnosis between September 1, 2021, and December 1, 2022, and a comorbid depressive disorder, the leading indication for SSRI use, we evaluated the relationship between SSRI use during acute COVID-19 and subsequent 12-month risk of Long COVID (defined by ICD-10 code U09.9). We defined SSRI use as a prescription for SSRI medication beginning at least 30 days before acute COVID-19 and not ending before SARS-CoV-2 infection. To minimize bias, we estimated relationships using nonparametric targeted maximum likelihood estimation to aggressively adjust for high-dimensional covariates.
Results We analyzed a sample (n = 302,626) of patients with a diagnosis of a depressive condition before COVID-19 diagnosis, where 100,803 (33%) were using an SSRI. We found that SSRI users had a significantly lower risk of Long COVID compared to nonusers (adjusted causal relative risk 0.92, 95% CI (0.86, 0.99)) and we found a similar relationship comparing new SSRI users (first SSRI prescription 1 to 4 months before acute COVID-19 with no prior history of SSRI use) to nonusers (adjusted causal relative risk 0.89, 95% CI (0.80, 0.98)). Conclusions These findings suggest that SSRI use during acute COVID-19 may be protective against Long COVID, supporting the hypothesis that serotonin may be a key mechanistic biomarker of Long COVID.
Abbreviations
SSRI Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor COVID- 19
Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at https:// doi . org/ 10. 1186/ s12916-024-03655-x. Additional file 1: Supplemental
Data access Investigators can access all data and analytic code used in this study through the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave ( https:// ncats . nih. gov/ resea rch/ resea rch-activ ities/ n3c/ data-overv iew/ access). Access to the N3C data enclave is granted and managed by the National Center for Advancing Translational research and the N3C Data Access Committee.
Inclusion and ethics statement All co-authors and collaborators included in this manuscript have fulfilled the criteria for authorship required by BMC Medicine
Authors' contributions Authorship was determined using ICMJE recommendations. ZB: generated research question, drafted manuscript, managed project timeline, and coordinated analysis. YJ, SD, EH, JC, JA, and JS: reviewed manuscript, provided feedback, and conducted analysis. AM, ML, JC, RP, and AH: provided oversight on study design and analysis plan, reviewed manuscript, provided feedback, and supported interpretations. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the UC Berkeley Office for Protection of Human Subjects (2022-01-14980). The N3C data transfer to NCATS is performed under a..
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