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Nature Research, Scientific Reports, 1(11), 2021

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96825-3

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Chagas disease and SARS-CoV-2 coinfection does not lead to worse in-hospital outcomes

Journal article published in 2021 by Israel Molina ORCID, Milena Soriano Marcolino ORCID, Magda Carvalho Pires ORCID, Lucas Emanuel Ferreira Ramos ORCID, Rafael Tavares Silva ORCID, Milton Henriques Guimarães-Júnior ORCID, Isaias José Ramos de Oliveira ORCID, Rafael Lima Rodrigues de Carvalho ORCID, Aline Gabrielle Sousa Nunes ORCID, Ana Lara Rodrigues Monteiro de Barros ORCID, Ana Luiza Bahia Alves Scotton ORCID, Angélica Aparecida Coelho Madureira ORCID, Bárbara Lopes Farace ORCID, Cíntia Alcantara de Carvalho ORCID, Fernanda d’Athayde Rodrigues ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

AbstractChagas disease (CD) continues to be a major public health burden in Latina America. Information on the interplay between COVID-19 and CD is lacking. Our aim was to assess clinical characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients with CD and COVID-19, and to compare it to non-CD patients. Consecutive patients with confirmed COVID-19 were included from March to September 2020. Genetic matching for sex, age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and hospital was performed in a 4:1 ratio. Of the 7018 patients who had confirmed COVID-19, 31 patients with CD and 124 matched controls were included (median age 72 (64–80) years-old, 44.5% were male). At baseline, heart failure (25.8% vs. 9.7%) and atrial fibrillation (29.0% vs. 5.6%) were more frequent in CD patients than in the controls (p < 0.05). C-reactive protein levels were lower in CD patients compared with the controls (55.5 [35.7, 85.0] vs. 94.3 [50.7, 167.5] mg/dL). In-hospital management, outcomes and complications were similar between the groups. In this large Brazilian COVID-19 Registry, CD patients had a higher prevalence of atrial fibrillation and chronic heart failure compared with non-CD controls, with no differences in-hospital outcomes. The lower C-reactive protein levels in CD patients require further investigation.