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Coronavirus: People with dementia are twice as likely to get COVID, US study finds

Advertisement New York: People with dementia had significantly greater risk of contracting the coronavirus, and they were much more likely to be hospitalised and die from it, than people without dementia, a new study of millions of medical records in the United States has found. Their risk could not be entirely explained by characteristics common to people with dementia that are known risk factors for COVID-19: old age, living in a nursing home and having conditions like obesity, asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. After researchers adjusted for those factors, Americans with dementia were still twice as likely to have gotten COVID-19 as of late last northern summer.

Covid-19 Live Updates: California, Besieged by Virus for Months, Has Most Deaths in U S

Covid-19 Live Updates: California, Besieged by Virus for Months, Has Most Deaths in U S
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People With Dementia Are Twice as Likely to Get Covid, Huge Study Finds

People with dementia had significantly greater risk of contracting the coronavirus, and they were much more likely to be hospitalized and die from it, than people without dementia, a new study of millions of medical records in the United States has found. Their risk could not be entirely explained by characteristics common to people with dementia that are known risk factors for Covid-19: old age, living in a nursing home and having conditions.

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