COVID-19 outcomes in people living with HIV: Peering through the waves.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients infected with HIV, and to compare with a paired sample without HIV infection.

Methods

This is a substudy of a Brazilian multicentric cohort that comprised two periods (2020 and 2021). Data was obtained through the retrospective review of medical records. Primary outcomes were admission to the intensive care unit, invasive mechanical ventilation, and death. Patients with HIV and controls were matched for age, sex, number of comorbidities, and hospital of origin using the technique of propensity score matching (up to 4:1). They were compared using the Chi-Square or Fisher's Exact tests for categorical variables and the Wilcoxon for numerical variables.

Results

Throughout the study, 17,101 C

SUBMITTER: Sales TLS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10209448 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature