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- Title
Colchicine in Recently Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A Randomized Controlled Trial (COL-COVID).
- Authors
Pascual-Figal, Domingo A; Roura-Piloto, Aychel E; Moral-Escudero, Encarnación; Bernal, Enrique; Albendín-Iglesias, Helena; Pérez-Martínez, M Teresa; Noguera-Velasco, Jose Antonio; Cebreiros-López, Iria; Hernández-Vicente, Álvaro; Vázquez-Andrés, David; Sánchez-Pérez, Carmen; Khan, Amjad; Sánchez-Cabo, Fátima; García-Vázquez, Elisa
- Abstract
Background: Colchicine has been proposed as a potential therapy in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to their anti-inflammatory actions. Methods: The COL-COVID study was a prospective, randomized, controlled and open-label clinical trial that compared colchicine added to standard treatment vs standard treatment in hospitalized COVID-19 patients that do not need mechanical ventilatory support. Colchicine was initiated within the first 48 hours of admission at a 1.5 mg loading dose, followed by 0.5 mg b.i.d. for one week and 0.5 mg per day for 28 days. The study endpoints were clinical status (7-points WHO ordinal scale) and inflammatory biomarkers (IL-6 and CRP). Results: A total of 103 patients (51± 12 years, 52% male) were randomly allocated to colchicine arm (n=52) and control arm (n=51). At day 28, all patients in the colchicine group were alive and discharged, whereas in the control group, two patients died in-hospital and one patient remained hospitalized. Clinical improvement in terms of changes on WHO scale at day 14 and 28 and time to 1-point clinical improvement did not differ between the two groups. Clinical deterioration (increase of at least 1-point in WHO scale) was observed in a higher proportion of cases in colchicine group (13.8%) vs control group (5.8%) (p=0.303); after adjustment by baseline risk factors and concomitant therapies, colchicine therapy was associated with a lower risk of clinical deterioration (p=0.030). Inflammatory biomarkers CRP and IL-6 concentrations course did not differ between the two arms. Conclusion: In hospitalized COVID-19 patients, colchicine treatment neither improved the clinical status, nor the inflammatory response, over the standard treatment. Nevertheless, a preventive effect for further clinical deterioration might be possible. Trial Registration: NCT04350320.
- Subjects
COVID-19; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; HOSPITAL patients; COLCHICINE; COVID-19 treatment
- Publication
International Journal of General Medicine, 2021, Vol 14, p5517
- ISSN
1178-7074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2147/IJGM.S329810