Article
ApoE e4 Genotype Predicts Severe COVID-19 in the UK Biobank Community Cohort
2020-05-11
Abstract excerpt
The novel respiratory disease COVID-19 produces varying symptoms, with fever, cough, and shortness of breath being common. In older adults, we found that pre-existing dementia is a major risk factor (OR = 3.07, 95% CI: 1.71 to 5.50) for COVID-19 hospitalization in the UK Biobank (UKB). In another UK study of 16,749 patients hospitalized for COVID-19, dementia was among the common comorbidities and was associated w...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8b1be509-0ff6-533d-9d99-db2b11c91366
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.05.07.20094409
