volume 9 issue 12 pages 1407-1418

Efficacy and safety of baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalised adults with COVID-19 (COV-BARRIER): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial

Vincent C. Marconi
Athimalaipet V Ramanan
Stephanie de Bono
Cynthia E Kartman
Venkatesh Krishnan
RAN LIAO
Maria Lucia B Piruzeli
Rita De Cassia Pellegrini
Anabela Cardoso
Sujatro Chakladar
Brenda Crowe
Paulo Reis
Xin Zhang
David H. Adams
E Wesley Ely
Mi Young Ahn
Miriam Akasbi
Jorge Alatorre Alexander
Javier David Altclas
Federico Ariel
Horacio Alberto Ariza
Chandrasekhar Atkar
Anselmo Bertetti
Meenakshi Bhattacharya
María Luisa Briones
Akshay Budhraja
Aaliya Burza
Adrian Camacho-Ortiz
Roberto Caricchio
Marcelo Casas
Valeria Cevoli Recio
Won Suk Choi
Emilia Cohen
Angel Comulada Rivera
PAUL COOK
Dora Patricia Cornejo Juarez
Daniel Carnevali
Luiz Fernando Degrecci Relvas
Jose Guillermo Dominguez Cherit
Todd Ellerin
Dmitry Enikeev
Suzana Erico Tanni Minamoto
Vicente Estrada
Elie Fiss
Motohiko Furuichi
Giovanni Luz Kleber
Jason D. Goldman
Omar González
Ivan Gordeev
Thomas Gruenewald
Victor Augusto Hamamoto Sato
Eun Young Heo
Jung Yeon Heo
Maria Hermida
Yuji Hirai
David Hutchinson
Claudio Iastrebner
Octavian Ioachimescu
Manish Jain
Maria Patelli Juliani Souza Lima
Akram Khan
Andreas E. Kremer
Thomas Lawrie
Mark Macelwee
Farah Madhani-Lovely
VINAY MALHOTRA
Michel Fernando Martínez Resendez
James McKinnell
Patrick Milligan
Cesar Minelli
Miguel Ángel Morán Rodríguez
Maria Leonor Parody
Priscila Paulin
Rita De Cassia Pellegrini
Priscilla Pemu
Ana Carolina Procopio Carvalho
Massimo Puoti
Joshua Purow
Mayur Ramesh
Alvaro Rea-Neto
Philip Robinson
Cristhieni Rodrigues
Gustavo Rojas‐Velasco
Jose Francisco Kerr Saraiva
Morton Scheinberg
Stefan Schreiber
Darío Scublinsky
Anete Sevciovic Grumach
Imad Shawa
Jesus Simon Campos
Nidhi Sofat
Mousumi Som
Christoph D. Spinner
Eduardo Sprinz
Roger Stienecker
Jose Suarez
Natsuo Tachikawa
Hasan Tahir
Brian Tiffany
Alexander Vishnevsky
Adilson Westheimer Cavalcante
Kapil Zirpe
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2021-12-01
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR6.788
CiteScore53.2
Impact factor32.8
ISSN22132600, 22132619
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Abstract
Baricitinib is an oral selective Janus kinase 1/2 inhibitor with known anti-inflammatory properties. This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of baricitinib in combination with standard of care for the treatment of hospitalised adults with COVID-19.In this phase 3, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial, participants were enrolled from 101 centres across 12 countries in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Hospitalised adults with COVID-19 receiving standard of care were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive once-daily baricitinib (4 mg) or matched placebo for up to 14 days. Standard of care included systemic corticosteroids, such as dexamethasone, and antivirals, including remdesivir. The composite primary endpoint was the proportion who progressed to high-flow oxygen, non-invasive ventilation, invasive mechanical ventilation, or death by day 28, assessed in the intention-to-treat population. All-cause mortality by day 28 was a key secondary endpoint, and all-cause mortality by day 60 was an exploratory endpoint; both were assessed in the intention-to-treat population. Safety analyses were done in the safety population defined as all randomly allocated participants who received at least one dose of study drug and who were not lost to follow-up before the first post-baseline visit. This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04421027.Between June 11, 2020, and Jan 15, 2021, 1525 participants were randomly assigned to the baricitinib group (n=764) or the placebo group (n=761). 1204 (79·3%) of 1518 participants with available data were receiving systemic corticosteroids at baseline, of whom 1099 (91·3%) were on dexamethasone; 287 (18·9%) participants were receiving remdesivir. Overall, 27·8% of participants receiving baricitinib and 30·5% receiving placebo progressed to meet the primary endpoint (odds ratio 0·85 [95% CI 0·67 to 1·08], p=0·18), with an absolute risk difference of -2·7 percentage points (95% CI -7·3 to 1·9). The 28-day all-cause mortality was 8% (n=62) for baricitinib and 13% (n=100) for placebo (hazard ratio [HR] 0·57 [95% CI 0·41-0·78]; nominal p=0·0018), a 38·2% relative reduction in mortality; one additional death was prevented per 20 baricitinib-treated participants. The 60-day all-cause mortality was 10% (n=79) for baricitinib and 15% (n=116) for placebo (HR 0·62 [95% CI 0·47-0·83]; p=0·0050). The frequencies of serious adverse events (110 [15%] of 750 in the baricitinib group vs 135 [18%] of 752 in the placebo group), serious infections (64 [9%] vs 74 [10%]), and venous thromboembolic events (20 [3%] vs 19 [3%]) were similar between the two groups.Although there was no significant reduction in the frequency of disease progression overall, treatment with baricitinib in addition to standard of care (including dexamethasone) had a similar safety profile to that of standard of care alone, and was associated with reduced mortality in hospitalised adults with COVID-19.Eli Lilly and Company.For the French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.
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Marconi V. C. et al. Efficacy and safety of baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalised adults with COVID-19 (COV-BARRIER): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial // The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 12. pp. 1407-1418.
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Marconi V. C. et al. Efficacy and safety of baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalised adults with COVID-19 (COV-BARRIER): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial // The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 2021. Vol. 9. No. 12. pp. 1407-1418.
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@article{2021_Marconi,
author = {Vincent C. Marconi and Athimalaipet V Ramanan and Stephanie de Bono and Cynthia E Kartman and Venkatesh Krishnan and RAN LIAO and Maria Lucia B Piruzeli and Rita De Cassia Pellegrini and Anabela Cardoso and Sujatro Chakladar and Brenda Crowe and Paulo Reis and Xin Zhang and David H. Adams and E Wesley Ely and Mi Young Ahn and Miriam Akasbi and Jorge Alatorre Alexander and Javier David Altclas and Federico Ariel and Horacio Alberto Ariza and Chandrasekhar Atkar and Anselmo Bertetti and Meenakshi Bhattacharya and María Luisa Briones and Akshay Budhraja and Aaliya Burza and Adrian Camacho-Ortiz and Roberto Caricchio and Marcelo Casas and Valeria Cevoli Recio and Won Suk Choi and Emilia Cohen and Angel Comulada Rivera and PAUL COOK and Dora Patricia Cornejo Juarez and Daniel Carnevali and Luiz Fernando Degrecci Relvas and Jose Guillermo Dominguez Cherit and Todd Ellerin and Dmitry Enikeev and Suzana Erico Tanni Minamoto and Vicente Estrada and Elie Fiss and Motohiko Furuichi and Giovanni Luz Kleber and Jason D. Goldman and Omar González and Ivan Gordeev and Thomas Gruenewald and others},
title = {Efficacy and safety of baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalised adults with COVID-19 (COV-BARRIER): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial},
journal = {The Lancet Respiratory Medicine},
year = {2021},
volume = {9},
publisher = {Elsevier},
month = {dec},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00331-3},
number = {12},
pages = {1407--1418},
doi = {10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00331-3}
}
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Marconi, Vincent C., et al. “Efficacy and safety of baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalised adults with COVID-19 (COV-BARRIER): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial.” The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 9, no. 12, Dec. 2021, pp. 1407-1418. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00331-3.