Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients with COVID-19, the Effect of Paricalcitol or Calcimimetics
Jimenez et al.,
Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients with COVID-19, the Effect of Paricalcitol or Calcimimetics,
Nutrients, doi:10.3390/nu13082559
Retrospective 288 hemodialysis patients in Spain, 137 with existing vitamin D treatments (94 with paricalcitol), showing lower mortality with treatment. There was no significant difference in outcomes based on serum levels, however authors do not separate patients that received vitamin D treatment.
risk of death, 50.1% lower, HR 0.50, p = 0.02, treatment 16 of 94 (17.0%), control 65 of 191 (34.0%), NNT 5.9, adjusted per study, paricalcitol treatment, multivariate Cox regression.
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risk of death, 50.7% lower, HR 0.49, p = 0.003, all vitamin D derivatives, univariate.
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risk of death, 7.7% higher, OR 1.08, p = 0.81, high D levels 50, low D levels 110, >30 vs. <20ng/ml, RR approximated with OR, outcome based on serum levels, excluded in exclusion analyses:
many patients received vitamin D treatment.
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risk of mechanical ventilation, 47.5% lower, OR 0.53, p = 0.56, high D levels 50, low D levels 110, >30 vs. <20ng/ml, RR approximated with OR, outcome based on serum levels, excluded in exclusion analyses:
many patients received vitamin D treatment.
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risk of ICU admission, 12.2% lower, OR 0.88, p = 0.87, high D levels 50, low D levels 110, >30 vs. <20ng/ml, RR approximated with OR, outcome based on serum levels, excluded in exclusion analyses:
many patients received vitamin D treatment.
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risk of hospitalization, 0.8% lower, OR 0.99, p = 0.98, high D levels 50, low D levels 110, >30 vs. <20ng/ml, RR approximated with OR, outcome based on serum levels, excluded in exclusion analyses:
many patients received vitamin D treatment.
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Jimenez et al., 26 Jul 2021, retrospective, Spain, peer-reviewed, 21 authors, study period 12 March, 2020 - 21 May, 2020, dosage paricalcitol 0.9μg weekly.
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Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients with COVID-19, the Effect
of Paricalcitol or Calcimimetics
María Dolores Arenas Jimenez 1,2, *, Emilio González-Parra 3 , Marta Riera 1 , Abraham Rincón Bello 4 ,
Ana López-Herradón 4 , Higini Cao 1 , Sara Hurtado 4 , Silvia Collado 1 , Laura Ribera 4 , Francesc Barbosa 1 ,
Fabiola Dapena 5 , Vicent Torregrosa 6 , José-Jesús Broseta 5 , Carlos Soto Montañez 6 ,
Juan F. Navarro-González 7,8,9 , Rosa Ramos 4 , Jordi Bover 10 , Xavier Nogués-Solan 11 , Marta Crespo 1 ,
Adriana S. Dusso 12,13 and Julio Pascual 1
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Citation: Arenas Jimenez, M.D.;
González-Parra, E.; Riera, M.; Rincón
Bello, A.; López-Herradón, A.; Cao,
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H.; Hurtado, S.; Collado, S.; Ribera, L.;
Barbosa, F.; et al. Mortality in
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Hemodialysis Patients with
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COVID-19, the Effect of Paricalcitol or
Calcimimetics. Nutrients 2021, 13,
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2559. https://doi.org/10.3390/
nu13082559
Academic Editor: Andrea Fabbri
Received: 22 June 2021
Accepted: 20 July 2021
Published: 26 July 2021
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Department of Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, IMIM Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute,
RD16/0009/0013 (ISCIII FEDER REDinREN), 08003 Barcelona, Spain; mriera1@imim.es (M.R.);
hcao@psmar.cat (H.C.); scollado@psmar.cat (S.C.); fbarbosa@psmar.cat (F.B.); mcrespo@psmar.cat (M.C.);
julpascual@gmail.com (J.P.)
Fundación Renal Iñigo Alvarez de Toledo, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Fundación Jimenez Díaz, 28040 Madrid, Spain; egonzalezpa@senefro.org
Fresenius Medical Care, Dirección Médica FMC, 28760 Madrid, Spain; abraham.rincon@fmc-ag.com (A.R.B.);
ana.lopez@fmc-ag.com (A.L.-H.); sara.hurtado@fmc-ag.com (S.H.); laura.ribera@fmc-ag.com (L.R.);
rosa.ramos@fmc-ag.com (R.R.)
Department of Nephrology, Consorci Sanitari Alt Penedes Garraf, 08800 Barcelona, Spain;
proyectologos1@gmail.com (F.D.); jjbroseta@clinic.cat (J.-J.B.)
Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hospital Clinic, 08036 Barcelona, Spain;
VTORRE@clinic.cat (V.T.); csoto@csg.cat (C.S.M.)
Research Division and Department of Nephrology, Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria,
38010 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; jnavgon@gobiernodecanarias.org
Instituto de Tecnologías Biomédicas, Universidad de La Laguna, 38010 Tenerife, Spain
Red de Investigación Renal (REDINREN–RD16/0009/0022), Instituto de Salud Carlos III,
28029 Madrid, Spain
Department of Nephrology, Hospital Can Ruti, 08916 Barcelona, Spain; jbover@fundacio-puigvert.es
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital del Mar, Institut Mar for Medical Research, CIBERFES,
08003 Barcelona, Spain; xnogues@psmar.cat
Bone and Mineral Research Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias del Principado de Asturias,
33011 Oviedo, Spain; adriana.dusso@gmail.com
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Correspondence: lola@olemiswebs.net
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