The effectiveness and safety of azvudine treatment in COVID‐19 patients with kidney disease based on a multicenter retrospective cohort study
Bo Yu, Mengzhao Yang, Jia Yu, Daming Wang, Hong Luo, Ming Cheng, Shixi Zhang, Guotao Li, Ling Wang, Guowu Qian, Donghua Zhang, Silin Li, Zhigang Ren, Quancheng Kan
VIEW, doi:10.1002/viw.20240075
Kidney disease has been the main risk factor of poor prognosis for COVID-19 patients. The effectiveness and safety of azvudine treatment in COVID-19 patients with kidney disease have not been reported. Herein, we conducted a nine-center and retrospective cohort study in China (ClinicalTrials: NCT06349655) that enrolled 32,864 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, in which 4192 patients were pre-existed with kidney disease. After exclusions and propensity score matching, a total of 831 kidney disease patients treated with azvudine and 831 kidney disease patients treated without any anti-viral treatment (normal group) were selected. Based on Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression analysis, we found that azvudine administration had significantly decreased risks of all-cause death (p < 0.0001) and composite disease progression (p = 0.012) as compared Bo Yu, Mengzhao Yang, and Jia Yu contributed equally to this work.
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