PMID- 37436873 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230714 LR - 20230718 IS - 1096-9071 (Electronic) IS - 0146-6615 (Linking) VI - 95 IP - 7 DP - 2023 Jul TI - The effect of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir on the long-term risk of neuropsychiatric sequelae following COVID-19. PG - e28951 LID - 10.1002/jmv.28951 [doi] AB - The retrospective cohort was conducted to assess the effect of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (NMV-r) on the long-term risk of neuropsychiatric sequela following COVID-19. TriNetX research network was used to identify nonhospitalized adult patients who tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection or were diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 1, 2020 and July 1, 2022. Further propensity score matching method was used to create two matched cohorts with and without receiving NMV-r. The primary outcome was the incidence of neuropsychiatric sequela within a 90-day to 1-year period following a diagnosis of COVID-19. After screening 119 494 527 electronic health records, two matched cohorts of each 27 194 patients were identified. During the follow-up period, the NMV-r group demonstrated a reduced risk of any neuropsychiatric sequelae compared to the control group (odds ratio [OR], 0.634; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.604-0.667). In comparison with the control group, the patient treated with NMV-r exhibited a markedly diminished risk of developing neurocognitive sequela (OR, 0.377; 95% CI, 0.325-0.439) and psychiatric sequela (OR, 0.629; 95% CI, 0.593-0.666). In addition, patients treated with NMV-r had a significantly reduced risk of developing dementia (OR, 0.365; 95% CI, 0.255-0.522), depression (OR, 0.555; 95% CI, 0.503-0.612), insomnia (OR, 0.582; 95% CI, 0.508-0.668) and anxiety disorder (OR, 0.645 95% CI, 0.600-0.692). Moreover, the beneficial effect of NMV-r on the neuropsychiatric sequelae was observed across further subgroup analyses. Among nonhospitalized COVID-19 patients, who at risk of disease progression, the use of NMV-r is associated with a reduction in the long-term risk of neuropsychiatric sequela, including dementia, depression, insomnia and anxiety disorder. It may be necessary to re-evaluate the use of NMV-r, as a preventive measure to reduce the risk of severe acute disease and post-acute adverse mental health outcomes. CI - (c) 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Liu, Ting-Hui AU - Liu TH AD - Department of Psychiatry, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. FAU - Wu, Jheng-Yan AU - Wu JY AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3290-1909 AD - Department of Nutrition, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. FAU - Huang, Po-Yu AU - Huang PY AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8682-1322 AD - Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. FAU - Tsai, Ya-Wen AU - Tsai YW AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4630-3923 AD - Center of Integrative Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. FAU - Lai, Chih-Cheng AU - Lai CC AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6334-2388 AD - Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. AD - School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - J Med Virol JT - Journal of medical virology JID - 7705876 RN - 7R9A5P7H32 (nirmatrelvir) RN - O3J8G9O825 (Ritonavir) RN - 0 (Antiviral Agents) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Humans MH - *COVID-19/complications MH - COVID-19 Drug Treatment MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Ritonavir/adverse effects MH - *Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders MH - Disease Progression MH - *Dementia MH - Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use OTO - NOTNLM OT - COVID-19 OT - SARS-CoV-2 OT - neurologic OT - nirmatrelvir-ritonavir OT - psychiatric EDAT- 2023/07/12 19:07 MHDA- 2023/07/14 13:07 CRDT- 2023/07/12 12:33 PHST- 2023/05/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/01/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/06/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/07/14 13:07 [medline] PHST- 2023/07/12 19:07 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/07/12 12:33 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/jmv.28951 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Med Virol. 2023 Jul;95(7):e28951. doi: 10.1002/jmv.28951.