Move Disorders: Parkinson's patients are at higher risk of dying from COVID19.

Oct 3, 2020 /--- A new study of about 80,000 patients shows that people with Parkinson's disease are 30 percent more likely to die from COVID-19 than those without neurodegenerative diseases.
a new analysis by researchers at the University of Iowa Health Care based on patient data from the TriNetX COVID-19 research network shows that Parkinson's disease is a separate risk factor for dying from COVID-19.
team, led by neurologist Nandakumar Narayanan, collected the relevant COVID-19 patient cohort on July 15 and analyzed mortality data eight weeks later.
they found that the mortality rate for COVID19 patients without Parkinson's disease was 5.5% (4,290 out of 78,355), while the mortality rate for COVID19 patients with Parkinson's disease rose to 21.3% (148 out of 694).
(Photo source: www.pixabay.com) But people with Parkinson's disease are usually older than control patients, with a higher proportion of men.
all these factors also increase the risk of COVID-19 death.
In turn, the researchers used two methods to address these differences: logical regression based on age, gender, and race, matching each Parkinson's patient to five non-Parkinson's patients of age, gender, and race, and performing conditional logical regression.
both cases, the researchers found that PD patients had a 30 percent higher risk of dying from COVID-19.
study was published in the journal Moving Disorder. "We are aware of the limitations of this study; it is retrospective data from a single database, but we are confident that these data show that Parkinson's disease is a separate risk factor for death in COVID-19," said Naryana, an associate professor of neurology at
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we believe this observation will provide guidance to clinicians and public health leaders who treat people with Parkinson's disease.
also help provide information to Parkinson's patients and their doctors about the growing importance of preventing COVID-19 infections, the researchers said.
(bioon.com) Source: People with Parkinson's disease have a higher risk of dying COVID-19 Original source: Qiang Zhang et al, COVID-19 case fatality and Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders (2020). DOI: 10.1002/mds.28325.