Back to search

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...

Topics

Open a Topic to create a Post that cites this publication.

Identifiers and source

Literature Corpus work
8b1be509-0ff6-533d-9d99-db2b11c91366
DOI
10.1101/2020.05.07.20094409
Open publication

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest
Interactive article relationship graphSelect a related publication card to move it into the centre and load its closest explainable connections. Solid lines are source-backed structured connections. Dashed lines are semantic discovery signals and are not scientific evidence.
ApoE e4 Genotype Predicts Severe COVID-19 in the UK Biobank Community CohortDOI 10.1101/2020.05.07.20094409
Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.