Prior cardiovascular risk and screening echocardiograms predict hospitalization and severity of coronavirus infection among elderly medicare patients

• Main Authors: Reyan Ghany (Author), Ana Palacio (Author), Gordon Chen (Author), Elissa Dawkins (Author), Daniel McCarter (Author), Emancia Forbes (Author), Brian Chung (Author), Leonardo Tamariz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionally impacted the elderly. In the United States and Europe the mortality rate of elderly patients with COVID-19 is greater than 30%. Our aim is to determine predictors of COVID-19 related hospitalization and severity of disease among elderly Medicar...