NSAID use and clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients: a 38-center retrospective cohort study.
Justin T ReeseBen ColemanLauren ChanHannah BlauTiffany J CallahanLuca CappellettiTommaso FontanaKatie R BradwellNomi L HarrisElena CasiraghiGiorgio ValentiniGuy KarlebachRachel DeerJulie A McMurryMelissa A HaendelChristopher G ChuteEmily PfaffRichard MoffittHeidi SprattJasvinder A SinghChristopher J MungallAndrew E WilliamsPeter Nick RobinsonPublished in: Virology journal (2022)
Study interpretation is limited by the observational design. Recording of NSAID use may have been incomplete. Our study demonstrates that NSAID use is not associated with increased COVID-19 severity, all-cause mortality, invasive ventilation, AKI, or ECMO in COVID-19 inpatients. A conservative interpretation in light of the quantitative bias analysis is that there is no evidence that NSAID use is associated with risk of increased severity or the other measured outcomes. Our results confirm and extend analogous findings in previous observational studies using a large cohort of patients drawn from 38 centers in a nationally representative multicenter database.