Does Baseline Diuretics Use Affect Prognosis in Patients With COVID-19?

ace inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers anticoagulation coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) diuretics mortality severity

Journal

Cureus
ISSN: 2168-8184
Titre abrégé: Cureus
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101596737

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jun 2021
Historique:
accepted: 10 06 2021
entrez: 19 7 2021
pubmed: 20 7 2021
medline: 20 7 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The rapid emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become the biggest healthcare crisis of the last century, resulting in thousands of deaths worldwide. There have been studies that evaluated the role of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) in treating patients with COVID-19. However, the prior use of diuretics and their effect on mortality in this setting remains unknown. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of diuretics in patients admitted with COVID-19. The current study was conducted between March 15, 2020, and April 30, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in three different hospitals in Northern New Jersey, USA. The primary outcome was survival or in-hospital mortality from COVID-19 from the day of admission. The secondary outcome was severe or non-severe illness from COVID-19. This retrospective study included a total of 313 patients with a median age of 61.3 ± 14.6 years. There was a total of 68 patients taking diuretics at home and 245 patients who were not taking diuretics. There was a total of 39 (57.35%) deaths in patients taking diuretics as compared to 93 (37.96%) deaths in patients not taking diuretics (p-value 0.0042). Also, 54 (79.41%) patients who took diuretics had severe COVID-19 illness as compared to 116 (47.35%) who did not take diuretics (p-value <.0001). However, after adjusting for the confounding factors, there was no difference in mortality or severity of illness in COVID-19 patients taking diuretics at the time of admission. In conclusion, there was no effect of the baseline use of diuretics in the prognosis of COVID-19.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34277195
doi: 10.7759/cureus.15573
pmc: PMC8272599
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

e15573

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021, Guragai et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Auteurs

Nirmal Guragai (N)

Cardiology, St Joseph University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

Rahul Vasudev (R)

Cardiology, St Joseph University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

Kevin Hosein (K)

Cardiology, St Joseph University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

Habib Habib (H)

Cardiology, St Joseph University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

Biren Patel (B)

Cardiology, St Joseph University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

Parminder Kaur (P)

Cardiology, St Joseph University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

Bhavik Patel (B)

Internal Medicine, St Michael's Medical Center, Newark, USA.

Melvin Santana (M)

Internal Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth, USA.

Sherif Elkattawy (S)

Internal Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Trinitas Regional Medical, Elizabeth, USA.

Muhammad Atif Masood Noori (MAM)

Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Karachi, PAK.
Internal Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth, USA.

Islam Younes (I)

Internal Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth, USA.

Ramez Alyacoub (R)

Internal Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School/Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth, USA.

Balraj Singh (B)

Hematology/Oncology, St Joseph's University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

Raja Pullatt (R)

Cardiology, Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth, USA.

Preet Randhawa (P)

Cardiology, St Michael's Medical Center, Newark, USA.

Fayez Shamoon (F)

Cardiology, St Joseph University Medical Center, Paterson, USA.

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