According to a new study published Tuesday, patients with conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia are more likely to die from Covid-19.
There are patients in the intensive care unit.
The study found that patients with dementia were more likely to die from Covid than patients with other pre-existing conditions.
People with Alzheimer's disease were more likely to die from Covid than people without the disease, and people with dementia were more likely to die from coronaviruses.
The study found that people with severe disabilities were 4.2 times more likely to die from Covid.
Conventional methods for predicting Covid mortality risk may underestimate the risks caused by these illnesses as physicians don't typically associate neurological diseases and disabilities with the kinds of respiratory issues and weakened immune systems that can leave people more vulnerable to severe coronaviruses
A new method for predicting mortality from coronaviruses was found to be better than previous methods, and was evaluated on Tuesday.
Chronic lung conditions, cancer, and heart conditions have been shown to increase the risk of dying from a coronaviruses infection by making the patient more vulnerable to infections. Neurological conditions can put people at high risk for severe coronaviruses infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and previous research has shown illnesses like dementia can raise the risk of getting Covid. It is possible that memory problems associated with the condition make it difficult for patients to follow safety measures such as wearing masks and washing hands, and that damaged blood vessels caused by the condition may allow germs and Viruses to travel more easily from a person's blood into the brain. Scientists have focused on evaluating a patient's risk of death from the coronaviruses by grouping pre-existing conditions together under broad categories and have at times excluded some of the highest risk conditions, including neurological diseases.
Older people are more vulnerable to Alzheimer's due to covid infections. A recent study found that people who had Covid had a higher risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's within a year.
The study found that new Alzheimer's diagnoses were more common among seniors who had Covid-19.
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