People with dementia have the double chance of contracting COVID-19

People with dementia have the double chance of contracting COVID-19

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Mental fragility alone has presented itself as a challenge to the continuity of attention between the subjects that the padecen and to the women have unveiled some of this indulgence in the REUTERS / Marzio Toniolo confinement
Mental fragility alone has presented itself as a challenge to the continuity of attention between the subjects that the padecen and to the women have unveiled some of this indulgence in the REUTERS / Marzio Toniolo confinement

A big study Among the millions of medical records in the United States, it is stated that people with dementia have the double chance of contracting COVID-19, and that they are much more likely to be hospitalized and killed.

La mental fragility has only been presented as a challenge to the continuity of the attention between the subjects that the padecen and to the women he unveiled some of this indulgence to the part of the confinement, which, moreover, has been revealed there is an extremely inflammatory tendency to attract the coronavirus and generate a more serious and fatal situation between its patients.

A series of new informants informs confluents in this sense. In one of them published in the magazine Nature communication, in which he participated investigators of the Institute of Primary Investigation in Primary Attention (IDIAP Jordi Gol), the Institute of Biomedical Investigation of Bellvitge (IDIBELL) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), search describes the impact of the virus in Catalonia and analyzes the diagnostic relationship with the sex and age of the patients.

The investigation team was called conditions such as dementia, cardiac disease or obesity have a poor evolution of COVID-19 diagnostics. Specifically, it may be necessary to present a minor risk of accession to the UCI, tienen un burgemeester riesgo de falecer sin hospitalización.

The investigators analyzed the primary attention records of 5.5 million people in his region and extracted the data from those who had received a COVID-19 diagnosis and had been hospitalized or killed by the disease.

A large studio has millions of medical records in the United States indicating that people with dementia have a double chance of contracting COVID-19 Foto: Christin Klose / dpa
A large studio has millions of medical records in the United States indicating that people with dementia have a double chance of contracting COVID-19 Foto: Christin Klose / dpa

Between the analyzed sample, 38% of the people who failed to be hospitalized had dementia. “Increasing the risk associated with comorbidities is particularly pronounced in women less than 70 years old”, Señalan los investigadores.

A parallel was presented in the United States, where a study conducted by investigators from the University Case Western Reserve analyzed 61.9 million electronic medical records of 18-year-olds. The data correspond to 360 hospitals and 317,000 medical attendees from all areas of the country and “represent one fifth of the population population”, according to the authors.

Alarming coincidences

The study found that black people with dementia were more likely to have threesomes than white people with dementia virus infection, a hallazgo that the experts dijeron that probably reflects the hecho of the color people in general he suffers disproportionate days during the pandemic.

María Carrillo, Scientific Director of the Alzheimer’s Association, who directs the review that published the study, Alzheimer’s and dementia, indicates that “We must signal these disparities” because it allows a more accurate approach.

The risk may not be explained in full by the common characteristics of persons with dementia that are known to the risk factors of COVID-19: vejez, vivir en sitio de retiro y tener dolencias complementarias et de posible comorbilidad como obesidad, astma, diabetes y enfermedades cardiovasculares. Despite the fact that the investigators are adjusting these factors, the stadiums with dementia will increase ten times the probability of having COVID-19 fines passed.

The study found that black people with dementia were more likely to have threesomes than white people with virus infection (Shutterstock)
The study found that black people with dementia were more likely to have threesomes than white people with virus infection (Shutterstock)

Rong Xu, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Case Western and Head of Estudio, dijo que “It has been speculated about whether people with dementia are more likely to be infected and with COVID -19. Now we have the data, we can try this hypothesis ”.

Investigators found that 15,770 patients had COVID-19 in their records, 810 of them also had dementia. When investigators adjust the general demographic factors (age, sex, and race), find that people with dementia have more than three times the risk of contracting coronavirus. When adjusting to the specific risk factors of COVID, such as the residence in a hut of seniors and the subordinate physical conditions, the breach will be closed for a while, for people with dementia aún tenan the double of probabilities of infection.

According to the authors in their study, “the reasons for this vulnerability can include cognitive and physiological factors”. In addition, specialists subdivide patients into the type of dementia enumerated in electronic records and find that persons designated with vascular dementia have a mayor risk of infection as persons designated with Alzheimer’s and other types. It can be associated with the vascular inflammatory process that COVID has been discharged from.

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