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

• Autores principales: Reyan Ghany (Autor), Ana Palacio (Autor), Gordon Chen (Autor), Elissa Dawkins (Autor), Daniel McCarter (Autor), Emancia Forbes (Autor), Brian Chung (Autor), Leonardo Tamariz (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Elsevier, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: 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...