Clinical Features and Outcomes of Patients with Dementia Compared to an Aging Cohort Hospitalized During the Initial New York City COVID-19 Wave.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with dementia are vulnerable during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, yet few studies describe their hospital course and outcomes.

Objective

To describe and compare the hospital course for COVID-19 patients with dementia to an aging cohort without dementia in a large New York City academic medical center.

Methods

This was a single-center retrospective cohort study describing all consecutive patients age 65 or older with confirmed COVID-19 who presented to the emergency department or were hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center between March 6 and April 7, 2020.

Results

A total of 531 patients were evaluated, including 116 (21.8%) with previously diagnosed dementia, and 415 without demen

SUBMITTER: Harb AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8203227 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature