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Correspondence on ‘Association between treatment with colchicine and improved survival in a single-centre cohort of adult hospitalised patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome’
  1. Tomoyuki Kawada
  1. Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku 1138602, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tomoyuki Kawada, Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku 1138602, Japan; kawada{at}nms.ac.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219771

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    I read with great interest the paper by Scarsi et al. 1 The authors examined the effect of colchicine (1 mg/day) in patients with COVID-19 by setting standard of care (hydroxychloroquine, and/or intravenous dexamethasone, and/or lopinavir/ritonavir).1 The adjusted HR (95% CI) of colchicine for mortality was 0.151 (0.062–0.368). In contrast, older age, worse PaO2/FiO2 and higher serum levels of ferritin at entry were no risk factors of mortality. The authors recommended controlled clinical trials to verify efficacy and safety, and I …

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    • Contributors The author presented the recent information on the association between colchicine and COVID-19.

    • Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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