Do patients with rheumatoid arthritis show a different course of COVID-19 compared to patients with spondyloarthritis?

CONCLUSIONS: The study revealed that the hospitalisation rate during COVID-19 infection, but not the mortality, was significantly higher in RA as compared to SpA patients. This could be explained either by different treatment strategies or by different susceptibilities of the two diseases.PMID:33822706

Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - April 6, 2021 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Rebecca Hasseli Alexander Pfeil Bimba F Hoyer Andreas Krause Hanns-Martin Lorenz Jutta G Richter Tim Schmeiser Reinhard E Voll Hendrik Schulze-Koops Christof Specker Ulf M üller-Ladner Source Type: research