Chinese herbal medicine reduces mortality in patients with severe and critical Coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospective cohort study.
- Author:
Guohua CHEN
1
;
Wen SU
1
;
Jiayao YANG
1
;
Dan LUO
1
;
Ping XIA
1
;
Wen JIA
1
;
Xiuyang LI
2
;
Chuan WANG
1
;
Suping LANG
3
;
Qingbin MENG
1
;
Ying ZHANG
4
;
Yuhe KE
1
;
An FAN
3
;
Shuo YANG
1
;
Yujiao ZHENG
2
;
Xuepeng FAN
1
;
Jie QIAO
5
;
Fengmei LIAN
6
;
Li WEI
7
;
Xiaolin TONG
8
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: CHM; COVID-19; a retrospective cohort study; mortality
- MeSH: Age Factors; Aged; COVID-19/therapy*; China; Drugs, Chinese Herbal/therapeutic use*; Female; Humans; Male; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Middle Aged; Odds Ratio; Propensity Score; Retrospective Studies; Survival Rate
- From: Frontiers of Medicine 2020;14(6):752-759
- CountryChina
- Language:English
- Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in patients with severe/critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this retrospective study, data were collected from 662 patients with severe/critical COVID-19 who were admitted to a designated hospital to treat patients with severe COVID-19 in Wuhan before March 20, 2020. All patients were divided into an exposed group (CHM users) and a control group (non-users). After propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio, 156 CHM users were matched by propensity score to 156 non-users. No significant differences in seven baseline clinical variables were found between the two groups of patients. All-cause mortality was reported in 13 CHM users who died and 36 non-users who died. After multivariate adjustment, the mortality risk of CHM users was reduced by 82.2% (odds ratio 0.178, 95% CI 0.076-0.418; P < 0.001) compared with the non-users. Secondly, age (odds ratio 1.053, 95% CI 1.023-1.084; P < 0.001) and the proportion of severe/critical patients (odds ratio 0.063, 95% CI 0.028-0.143; P < 0.001) were the risk factors of mortality. These results show that the use of CHM may reduce the mortality of patients with severe/critical COVID-19.