dc.contributorUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
dc.contributorUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Coordinator of the Institute for Health Technology Assessment (IATS/CNPq). Rua Ramiro Barcelos
dc.contributorPhysician. Hospital Unimed-BH
dc.contributorHospitais da Rede Mater Dei
dc.contributor01
dc.contributorPhysician. Hospital Santa Rosália
dc.contributor400
dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributorHospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
dc.contributorHospital Mãe de Deus
dc.contributorHospital Santo Antônio
dc.contributorPharmaceutical. Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
dc.contributorHospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição and Hospital Cristo Redentor
dc.contributorHospital SOS Cárdio
dc.contributorNephrologist. Hospital Universitário Ciências Médicas
dc.contributorHospital Márcio Cunha
dc.contributorHospital Regional do Oeste
dc.contributorBrasil. Hospital São Lucas PUCRS
dc.contributorUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e Instituto de Avaliação de Tecnologia em Saúde (IATS/CNPQ)
dc.contributorUndergraduate Medical Student. Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri. R. Cruzeiro 1
dc.contributorHospital Luxemburgo
dc.contributorHospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição
dc.contributorHospital Bruno Born
dc.contributorHospital Moinhos de Vento
dc.contributorHospital Metropolitano Odilon Behrens
dc.contributorHospital Santa Cruz
dc.contributorHospital Julia Kubitschek. Avenida Professor Alfredo Balena 190
dc.contributorHospital São Lucas PUCRS
dc.contributor2213
dc.contributor311
dc.contributorHospital São João de Deus
dc.contributor389
dc.contributorHospital Universitário Canoas
dc.contributorHospital Universitário de Santa Maria
dc.contributorHospital Tacchini
dc.contributorResearcher. Institute for Health Technology Assessment (IATS/ CNPq). Rua Ramiro Barcelos
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T08:39:25Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-20T03:02:39Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T08:39:25Z
dc.date.available2022-12-20T03:02:39Z
dc.date.created2022-04-29T08:39:25Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-01
dc.identifierInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, v. 116, p. 319-327.
dc.identifier1878-3511
dc.identifier1201-9712
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/230351
dc.identifier10.1016/j.ijid.2022.01.016
dc.identifier2-s2.0-85124200530
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/5410485
dc.description.abstractBackground: It is not clear whether previous thyroid diseases influence the course and outcomes of COVID-19. Methods: The study is a part of a multicentric cohort of patients with confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis from 37 hospitals. Matching for age, sex, number of comorbidities, and hospital was performed for the paired analysis. Results: Of 7,762 patients with COVID-19, 526 had previously diagnosed hypothyroidism and 526 were matched controls. The median age was 70 years, and 68.3% were females. The prevalence of comorbidities was similar, except for coronary and chronic kidney diseases that were higher in the hypothyroidism group (p=0.015 and p=0.001). D-dimer levels were lower in patients with hypothyroid (p=0.037). In-hospital management was similar, but hospital length-of-stay (p=0.029) and mechanical ventilation requirement (p=0.006) were lower for patients with hypothyroidism. There was a trend of lower in-hospital mortality in patients with hypothyroidism (22.1% vs 27.0%; p=0.062). Conclusion: Patients with hypothyroidism had a lower requirement of mechanical ventilation and showed a trend of lower in-hospital mortality. Therefore, hypothyroidism does not seem to be associated with a worse prognosis.
dc.languageeng
dc.relationInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectEpidemiology
dc.subjectHypothyroidism
dc.subjectMortality
dc.subjectPrognosis
dc.titleHypothyroidism does not lead to worse prognosis in COVID-19: findings from the Brazilian COVID-19 registry
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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