{"id":562,"date":"2020-10-01T11:27:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/?p=562"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:27:24","slug":"28-sep-2020-corticosteroids-may-not-be-beneficial-for-patients-with-mild-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/28-sep-2020-corticosteroids-may-not-be-beneficial-for-patients-with-mild-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"(28 Sep 2020) Corticosteroids- may not be beneficial for patients with mild COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p>Effect of Corticosteroid Therapy on the Duration of SARS-CoV-2 Clearance in Patients with Mild COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40121-020-00337-y<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Of 82 patients with a mild infection, 40 patients were male (48.8%), with a median age of 49 years (interquartile range, IQR 36-61). Among those patients, 36 patients (43.9%) received corticosteroid therapy. The adjusted multivariate models showed that the effects of corticosteroids were non-significant on the durations of onset to first RNA clearance [beta 2.48, 95% CI (95% confidence interval) &#8211; 0.42 to 5.38, P = 0.0926] and to persistent RNA clearance (beta 1.54, 95% CI &#8211; 1.41 to 4.48, P = 0.3016), and durations of therapy to first RNA clearance (beta 2.16, 95% CI &#8211; 0.56 to 4.89, P = 0.1184) and to persistent RNA clearance (beta 1.22, 95% CI &#8211; 1.52 to 3.95, P = 0.3787). Corticosteroid therapy in patients with mild COVID-19 was not associated with the duration of SARS-CoV-2 clearance, suggesting that the use of corticosteroids may not be beneficial for patients with mild COVID-19 and should be prudently recommended in clinical practice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effect of Corticosteroid Therapy on the Duration of SARS-CoV-2 Clearance in Patients with Mild COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40121-020-00337-y Of 82 patients with a mild infection, 40 patients were male (48.8%), with a median age of 49 years (interquartile&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/28-sep-2020-corticosteroids-may-not-be-beneficial-for-patients-with-mild-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(28 Sep 2020) Corticosteroids- may not be beneficial for patients with mild COVID-19&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow"},"categories":[51,4],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}