Residence, Clinical Features, and Genetic Risk Factors Associated with Symptoms of COVID-19 in a Cohort of Older People in Madrid.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The older population has been especially affected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic (COVID-19).

Objective

The aim of the study was to explore the incidence, severity, mortality rate, clinical features, and risk factors of symptoms of COVID-19 in home-dwelling older people, and its association with type of residence, cognitive deterioration, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Methods

Data about symptoms of COVID-19 were collected through a telephone survey in the cohort of 913 older volunteers of the Vallecas Project, aged 75-90 years, most of them (902) home-dwelling, in Madrid, Spain. The association of demographic and anthropometric measures, genetic polymorphisms, comorbidities, life habits, type of residence, and frailty surro

SUBMITTER: Del Ser T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7900450 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature