HIV infection and COVID-19: risk factors for severe disease
Nicolas Etienne, Marina Karmochkine, Laurence Slama, Juliette Pavie, Dominique Batisse, Rafael Usubillaga, V. Letembet, Patricia Brazille, Étienne Canouï, Dorsaf Slama, Hassan Joumaa, Florence Canouï‐Poitrine, Lauriane Ségaux, Laurence Weiss, Jean-Paul Viard, Dominique Salmon
Abstract
: We performed an observational prospective monocentric study in patients living with HIV (PLWH) diagnosed with COVID-19. Fifty-four PLWH developed COVID-19 with 14 severe (25.9%) and five critical cases (9.3%), respectively. By multivariate analysis, age, male sex, ethnic origin from sub-Saharan Africa and metabolic disorder were associated with severe or critical forms of COVID-19. Prior CD4 T cell counts did not differ between groups. No protective effect of a particular antiretroviral class was observed.