The Association of Pre-existing Diagnoses of Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection, Severity and Mortality: Results From the Korean National Health Insurance Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite the numerous studies on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), data regarding the impact of pre-existing diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) on the susceptibility to and outcome of COVID-19 are limited. We aimed to determine whether patients with AD/PD had a higher likelihood of contracting COVID-19 and experiencing worse outcomes.

Methods

Data from patients with confirmed diagnoses of COVID-19 (n = 8,070) from January to June 2020 and control participants (n = 121,050) who were randomly selected to match the patients on the basis of age and sex were extracted from the Korean National Health Insurance Database. Pre-existing diagnoses of AD and PD were identified based on medical claim codes. The associations of pr

SUBMITTER: Kim JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8934421 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature