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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2024 Mar 1;51(3):305–312. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.2023-0742

Table 4.

Associations of baseline demographic- and treatment-related factors with COVID-19 breakthrough after tixagevimab/cilgavimab receipt

Variable COVID-19 cases Personmonths Incidence rate (per 1000 person-months) Multivariable HRa (95% CI)
Age (per 10 years) 83 2,637.6 31.5 (24.7, 38.2) 0.86 (0.75 – 0.99)
Sex
Female 62 2,047.9 30.3 (22.7, 37.8) 1.00 (ref)
Male 21 589.7 35.6 (20.4, 50.9) 1.13 (0.67 – 1.90)
Calendar time
Before 4/6/2022 48 1,394.2 34.4 (24.7, 44.2) 1.00 (ref)
4/6 to 6/30/2022 21 841.5 26.1 (15.2, 37.1) 1.01 (0.54 – 1.87)
7/1/2022 and later 13 401.9 32.3 (14.8, 49.9) 1.62 (0.80 – 3.27)
Spike antibody level
<0.4 36 1,089 33.1 (22.3, 43.9) 1.00 (ref)
0.4 to 200 14 405.4 34.5 (16.4, 52.6) 0.94 (0.45 – 1.96)
>200 9 551.6 16.32 (5.7, 27.0) 0.42 (0.18 – 0.99)
Missing 24 591.6 40.6 (24.3, 56.8) 0.93 (0.40 – 2.17)
Previous COVID-19 before index date
No 72 2,167.2 33.2 (25.6, 40.9) 1.00 (ref)
Yes 11 470.4 23.4 (9.6, 37.2) 0.66 (0.35 – 1.25)
DMARD use
csDMARD onlyb 8 321.0 24.9 (7.7, 42.2) 1.00 (ref)
No DMARD 2 58.3 34.3 (0.0, 81.9) 1.55 (0.31 – 7.72)
MMF 13 354.6 36.7 (16.7, 56.6) 1.45 (0.59 – 3.60)
CD20 inhibitor 42 1,460.5 28.8 (20.1, 37.5) 1.05 (0.44 – 2.49)
Other b/tsDMARD 18 443.1 40.6 (21.9, 59.4) 1.89 (0.83 – 4.32)

COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; MMF, mycophenolate mofetil; b/tsDMARD, biologic and targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; MMF, mycophenolate mofetil

a

Adjusted for age and sex, calendar date, spike antibody level, DMARD use, previous COVID-19

b

csDMARD other than MMF