Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland - Repository

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Several population-level studies have described individual clinical risk factors associated with suboptimal antibody responses following COVID-19 vaccination, but none have examined multimorbidity. Others have shown that suboptimal post-vaccination responses offer reduced protection to subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection; however, the level of protection from COVID-19 hospitalisation/death remains unconfirmed. We use national Scottish datasets to investigate the association between multimorbidity and testing antibody-negative, examining the correlation between antibody levels and subsequent COVID-19 hospitalisation/death among double-vaccinated individuals. We found that individuals with multimorbidity ( ≥ five conditions) were more likely to test antibody-negative post-vaccination and 13.37 [6.05–29.53] times more likely to be hospitalised/die from COVID-19 than individuals without conditions. We also show a dose-dependent association between post-vaccination antibody levels and COVID-19 hospitalisation or death, with those with undetectable antibody levels at a significantly higher risk (HR 9.21 [95% CI 4.63–18.29]) of these serious outcomes compared to those with high antibody levels

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Macdonald, C., Palmateer, N., McAuley, A., Lindsay, L., Hasan, T., Hameed, S., Hall, E., Jeffrey, K., Grange, Z., Gousias, P., Mavin, S., Jarvis, L., Cameron, C., Daines, L., Tibble, H., Simpson, C., McCowan, C., Katikireddi, S., Rudan, I., Fagbamigbe, A., Ritchie, L., Swallow, B., Moss, P., Robertson, C., Sheikh, A. & Murray, J. 2024, 'Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland', Npj Vaccines, 9, article no: 107. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-024-00898-w

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-024-00898-w

Repository URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/89659/