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High levels of immunosuppression are related to unfavourable outcomes in hospitalised patients with rheumatic diseases and COVID-19: first results of ReumaCoV Brasil registry

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2021

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Cláudia Diniz Lopes Marques, Adriana María Kakehasi, Marcelo Medeiros Pinheiro, Lícia Maria Henrique da Mota, Cleandro Pires de Albuquerque, Carolina Rocha Silva, Gabriela P. J. Santos, Edgard Torres dos Reis-Neto, Pedro M. Matos, Guilherme Devidé,
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Abstract

Age >50 years and immunosuppression with GC and cyclophosphamide were associated with unfavourable outcomes of COVID-19. Treatment with TNFi may have been protective, perhaps leading to the COVID-19 inflammatory process.

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