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Status unknownNCT04356417TRAPSAHUpdated Apr 22, 2020

Long-term Use of Drugs That Could Prevent the Risk of Serious COVID-19 Infections or Make it Worse

An observational study in AMD, ACEi's/ARB Prevent/Worsen Risk of COVID-19 Infection, sponsored by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. Status unknown at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-04-22.

Sponsored by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Observational

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Apr 2020), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Other
Enrollment
6,000,000
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The COVID-19 emerging disease due to a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), started in Wuhan, China, last December, 2019. In the past three months, the virus has spread rapidly worldwide to reach the pandemic threshold.

Research has since been carried out and is intensifying in order to describe the clinical characteristics of infected patients, to identify the prognostic factors of acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS] and the death; and to assess the effectiveness of new antivirals and therapeutic strategies to treat COVID-19.

Treatments currently being investigated include:

  • Potentially effective treatments: (hydroxy)chloroquine, Remdesivir, Lopinavir, Ritonavir +/- IFN-ß-1a (currently evaluated in the European discovery trial), methylprednisolone in patients with ARDS;
  • Potentially harmful treatments: antihypertensives such as converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor antagonists.

We made the hypothesis that (1) patients receiving ARBs or ACEi's have a higher risk to present a serious COVID-19 infection disease and (2) patients receiving synthetic AMD (e.g. HCQ and CQ) have a lower risk to present a serious covid19 infection disease.

Using data from the French insurance health database (SNDS) and hospital discharge database (PMSI), our objectives are

  • Main objective: To assess the risk of moderate to serious COVID-19 infections in patients using synthetic anti-malarial drugs (AMD) or anti-hypertensive drugs (Angiotensin receptor-blocking/Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors).
  • Secondary objective : To examine the risk of moderate to serious COVID-19 infections according of age, sex, co-morbidities, level of exposure of AMD, geographical locations and underlying comorbidities.

This in order to:

  • To prevent moderate to serious COVID-19 infections in at-risk population (diabetes, elderly, respiratory failure population) using synthetic AMD.
  • To prevent moderate to serious COVID-19 infections in at-risk population stopping angiotensin receptor-blocking and angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors.
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Details for "Study design" section

Time perspective : Retrospective and prospective cohort study using French National Health Database Data source

Enrollment:

  • 70,000 patients treated by synthetic AMD
  • 13 million patients treated by ARBs or ACEi's from the French national health insurance database (SNDS) and the French national hospital discharge database (Programme de Médicalisation des Systèmes d'Information, PMSI)
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Conditions studied

  • AMD, ACEi's/ARB Prevent/Worsen Risk of COVID-19 Infection

Keywords

  • Prevent COVID-19 infection
  • Synthetic antimalarial drugs (AMD)
  • Anti-hypertensive drugs (ACEi's/ARB)
  • SNSD
  • PMSI
  • Cohort
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In context

Infections

6,687 studies on the registry are indexed under Infections; 807 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 6,000,000 is above the median of 240 across 2,136 observational studies indexed under Infections.

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Lead sponsor

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris is the lead sponsor of 3,505 studies on the registry; 1,006 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

Refer to eligibility criteria

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

All adults (18 years of age and older) registered in the French national health insurance database (SNDS) receiving between January 1, 2020, and May 31, 2020:

  1. Synthetic anti-malarial drugs (AMD): Participants will be identified by the prescription of at least one synthetic AMD (chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, ATC P01D1 and M01C respectively)
  2. Anti-hypertensive drugs: Participants will be identified by the prescription of at least one Angiotensin receptor-blocking or Angiotensin converting- enzyme inhibitors, ATC C09A-D

No Exclusion Criteria

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Other
Enrollment
6,000,000 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Interventions

  • Other- Synthetic anti-malarial drugs

    Prevalent users will be those with at least one dispensing of AMD or ARBs/ACEi's from 01/01/2019 to 01/01/2020. Exposed users will be those among prevalent users who still received AMD or ARBs/ACEi's on 31/12/2019. The inclusion period will be from 01/01/2019 to 01/01/2020. The study end date will be 30/06/2020. For each treatment AMD or ARB/ACRi's, the persistence of treatment will be defined as the length of time from initiation to discontinuation. Initiation will be the date of the first reimbursement of AMD or ARB/ACRi's during the inclusion period. We will define the discontinuation of treatment as a period of more than 90 days without fulfilment of a prescription for the same treatment after the period covered by the previous prescription i.e 30 days. Exposure to a combination of drugs will be defined as a period shorter than 30 days between the prescription of two different systemic drugs and the fulfilment of another prescription for both drugs in the following 90 days.

    Also known as: - Converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor antagonists

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Identification of serious COVID-19 infections

    Participants as those with the emergency ICD-10 (international classification of diseases, 10th revision) code of U07.1 which was assigned to the disease diagnosis of COVID-19.

    Time frame: From 2020/01/01 to 2020/06/30

Secondary outcomes

  1. Pneumonia infections

    Time frame: From 2020/01/01 to 2020/06/30

  2. ICU stay

    Time frame: From 2020/01/01 to 2020/06/30

  3. Oro-tracheal intubation

    Time frame: From 2020/01/01 to 2020/06/30

  4. Death

    Time frame: From 2020/01/01 to 2020/06/30

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Study locations

1 site
  • Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris - CHU Henri Mondor
    Créteil, 94000, France
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — DATAS ARE OWN BY ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE - HOPITAUX DE PARIS, PLEASE CONTACT SPONSOR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 22, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04356417
Lead sponsor
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Collaborators
GIS EPI-PHARE
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 22, 2020
Start date
Apr 2020 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jun 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2020 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 22, 2020

Study contacts

Emilie SBIDIAN, Pr
Contact
emilie.sbidian@aphp.fr
+33 6 83 31 66 96
Emilie SBIDIAN, Pr
principal investigator · Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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