— African Americans with dementia have even higher risks, especially for hospitalization

by Judy George, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today February 9, 2021share to facebookshare to twittershare to linkedinemail article

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Dementia patients had a significantly increased risk for COVID-19 and that risk was even higher for African Americans with dementia, a retrospective analysis of U.S. electronic health record (EHR) data showed.

After adjusting for age, sex, race, and COVID-19 risk factors including comorbidities and nursing home stay, people with dementia had twice the risk of developing COVID-19 as other adults (adjusted OR 2.00, 95% CI 1.94-2.06,P<0.001), according to Rong Xu, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, and co-authors.

Among people with dementia, African-American patients were nearly three times as likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 as white patients (adjusted OR 2.86, 95% CI 2.67-3.06,P<0.001), they reported…