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. 2022 Sep 11:10.1002/hep.32748. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1002/hep.32748

TABLE 1.

Multivariable HRs for the risk of overall death or COVID‐19‐related death in patients with postvaccination COVID‐19 versus unvaccinated COVID‐19

Variable Overall death COVID‐19‐related death
aHR (95% CI) p‐Value aHR (95% CI) p‐Value
Number of patients 762 762
Number of events 87 64
Group
Control REF REF
Vaccine 0.25 (0.12, 0.49) <0.0001 0.27 (0.13, 0.60) 0.0011
Location, n (%)
Northeast REF REF
Southeast 1.13 (0.51, 2.53) 0.7606 1.42 (0.55, 3.65) 0.4726
Midwest 1.30 (0.64, 2.64) 0.4759 1.46 (0.61, 3.48) 0.3914
South 0.61 (0.26, 1.42) 0.2528 0.87 (0.32, 2.38) 0.7897
Northwest 2.47 (0.98, 6.23) 0.0557 2.53 (0.82, 7.81) 0.1067
Southwest 1.54 (0.68, 3.49) 0.2992 2.29 (0.91, 5.80) 0.0801
Age 1.05 (1.02, 1.08) 0.0015 1.06 (1.02, 1.10) 0.0012
BMI 1.00 (0.97, 1.02) 0.6657 1.01 (0.98, 1.03) 0.6598
Diabetes
No REF REF
Yes 0.92 (0.56, 1.53) 0.9894 0.78 (0.45, 1.34) 0.3673
Etiology at cirrhosis
NAFLD REF REF
Alcohol 1.01 (0.49, 2.08) 0.9894 1.41 (0.64, 3.12) 0.3942
HCV+Alcohol 0.68 (0.32, 1.43) 0.3043 0.51 (0.20, 1.29) 0.1544
HCV 0.85 (0.45, 1.59) 0.6024 0.93 (0.52, 2.17) 0.8666
Others 0.29 (0.07, 1.18) 0.0841 NA NA
AUDIT‐C score
Low REF REF
High 1.17 (0.53, 2.57) 0.6902 1.21 (0.47, 3.06) 0.6959
eCTP
A REF REF
B 1.06 (0.60, 1.89) 0.8335 0.83 (0.42, 1.62) 0.5747
C 1.28 (0.11, 4.17) 0.6659 N/A N/A
Dexamethasone
No REF REF
Yes 4.25 (2.08, 8.69) < 0.0001 3.78 (1.55, 9.22) 0.0035
Remdesivir
No REF REF
Yes 0.75 (0.33, 1.70) 0.4926 1.41 (0.55, 3.62) 0.4778
MELD‐Na 1.03 (0.99, 1.08) 0.1183 1.04 (0.99, 1.09) 0.1661
PPI exposure
No REF REF
Yes 1.61 (1.06, 2.15) 0.0007 1.08 (0.55, 1.54) 0.7511
Median household income per $1000 0.98 (0.93, 1.07) 0.1567 0.99 (0.97, 1.03) 0.1078

Abbreviations: aHR, adjusted HR; AUDIT‐C, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test–Concise; BMI, body mass index; COVID‐19, coronavirus disease 2019; eCTP, electronic Child Turcotte Pugh; MELD‐Na, Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease–Sodium; NA, not available; PPI, proton pump inhibitor.

Bold indicates p < 0.05.