Associations of baseline use of biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs with COVID-19 severity in rheumatoid arthritis: Results from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance physician registry

Jeffrey A Sparks; Zachary S Wallace; Andrea M Seet; Milena A Gianfrancesco; Zara Izadi; Kimme L Hyrich; Anja Strangfeld; Laure Gossec; Loreto Carmona; Elsa F Mateus; Saskia Lawson-Tovey; Laura Trupin; Stephanie Rush; Patricia Katz; Gabriela Schmajuk; Lindsay Jacobsohn; Leanna Wise; Emily L Gilbert; Ali Duarte-García; Maria O Valenzuela-Almada; Guillermo J Pons-Estel; Carolina A Isnardi; Guillermo A Berbotto; Tiffany Y -T Hsu; Kristin M D’Silva; Naomi J Patel; Lianne Kearsley-Fleet; Martin Schäfer; Sandra Lúcia Euzébio Ribeiro; Samar Al Emadi; Liselotte Tidblad; Carlo Alberto Scirè; Bernd Raffeiner; Thierry Thomas; René-Marc Flipo; Jérôme Avouac; Raphaèle Seror; Miguel Bernardes; Maria Margarida Cunha; Rebecca Hasseli; Hendrik Schulze-Koops; Ulf Müller-Ladner; Christof Specker; Viviane Angelina de Souza; Licia Maria Henrique da Mota; Ana Paula Monteiro Gomides; Philippe Dieudé; Elena Nikiphorou; Vanessa L Kronzer; Namrata Singh; Manuel F Ugarte-Gil; Beth Wallace; Akpabio Akpabio; Ranjeny Thomas; Suleman Bhana; Wendy Costello; Rebecca Grainger; Jonathan S Hausmann; Jean W Liew; Emily Sirotich; Paul Sufka; Philip C Robinson; Pedro M Machado; Jinoos Yazdany

doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220418

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Rheumatoid arthritis

Associations of baseline use of biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs with COVID-19 severity in rheumatoid arthritis: Results from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance physician registry

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Jeffrey A Sparks Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Zachary S Wallace Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Clinical Epidemiology Program and Rheumatology Unit, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Andrea M Seet Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Milena A Gianfrancesco Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Zara Izadi Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kimme L Hyrich Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Anja Strangfeld Epidemiology and Health Care Research, German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Laure Gossec INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France APHP, Rheumatology Department, Hopital Universitaire Pitie Salpetriere, Paris, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Loreto Carmona Instituto de Salud Musculoesqueletica, Madrid, Spain PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Elsa F Mateus Portuguese League Against Rheumatic Diseases, Lisbon, Portugal Standing Committee of People with Arthritis/Rheumatism in Europe (PARE), European League Against Rheumatism, Kilchberg, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Saskia Lawson-Tovey Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Laura Trupin Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Stephanie Rush Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Patricia Katz Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Gabriela Schmajuk Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lindsay Jacobsohn Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Leanna Wise Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Emily L Gilbert Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic Hospital Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ali Duarte-García Division of Rheumatology, Robert D and Patricia E Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Maria O Valenzuela-Almada Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Guillermo J Pons-Estel SAR-COVID, Argentina Society of Rheumatology, Buenos Aires, Argentina PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Carolina A Isnardi SAR-COVID, Argentina Society of Rheumatology, Buenos Aires, Argentina PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Guillermo A Berbotto Rheumatology, Sanatorio Britanico Rosario, Buenos Aires, Argentina PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tiffany Y -T Hsu Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kristin M D’Silva Clinical Epidemiology Program and Rheumatology Unit, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Naomi J Patel Clinical Epidemiology Program and Rheumatology Unit, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lianne Kearsley-Fleet Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Martin Schäfer Epidemiology and Health Care Research, German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Sandra Lúcia Euzébio Ribeiro Hospital Universitário Getúlio Vargas, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Samar Al Emadi Rheumatology Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Liselotte Tidblad Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Carlo Alberto Scirè Epidemiology Research Unit, Italian Society of Rheumatology, Milano, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Bernd Raffeiner Department of Rheumatology, Central Hospital of Bolzano, Padua, Italy PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Thierry Thomas Société Française de Rhumatologie (SFR), Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Nord, Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
René-Marc Flipo Department of Rheumatology, University of Lille, Lille, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jérôme Avouac Service de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP.CUP, Universite de Paris, Paris, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Raphaèle Seror Department of Rheumatology, Assistance Publique, Hopitaux de Paris, Universite Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Miguel Bernardes Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Rheumatology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Sao Joao EPE, Porto, Portugal PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Maria Margarida Cunha Rheumatology Department, Garcia de Orta Hospital, Almada, Portugal PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Rebecca Hasseli Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Campus Kerckhoff, Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen, Giessen, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hendrik Schulze-Koops Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Internal Medicine IV, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Munchen, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ulf Müller-Ladner Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Campus Kerckhoff, Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen, Giessen, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Christof Specker Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, KEM Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Viviane Angelina de Souza Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Licia Maria Henrique da Mota Hospital Universitário de Brasilia, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ana Paula Monteiro Gomides Centro Universitario de Brasilia, Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Philippe Dieudé Rheumatology Department, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris University, Paris, France PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Elena Nikiphorou Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, King's College Hospital, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Vanessa L Kronzer Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Namrata Singh Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Manuel F Ugarte-Gil School of Medicine, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru Rheumatology Department, Level IV Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, La Victoria, Peru PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Beth Wallace Department of Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Akpabio Akpabio Rheumatology Department, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ranjeny Thomas UQ Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Suleman Bhana Crystal Run Healthcare, Middletown, New York, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Wendy Costello Irish Children's Arthritis Network (iCan), Tipperary, Ireland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Rebecca Grainger Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jonathan S Hausmann Program in Rheumatology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jean W Liew Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Emily Sirotich Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Paul Sufka HealthPartners, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Philip C Robinson Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Health Service District, Herston, Queensland, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Pedro M Machado Centre for Rheumatology and Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jinoos Yazdany Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
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Correspondence to Dr Jeffrey A Sparks, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; jsparks{at}bwh.harvard.edu; Dr Zachary S Wallace; zswallace{at}mgh.harvard.edu

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Sparks JA, Wallace ZS, Seet AM COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance, et al

Associations of baseline use of biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs with COVID-19 severity in rheumatoid arthritis: Results from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance physician registry

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2021;80:1137-1146.

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Received March 22, 2021
Accepted May 17, 2021
First published May 28, 2021.

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