%0 Journal Article
%T Case fatality of COVID-19 in patients with neurodegenerative dementia.
%A Reyes-Bueno JA
%A Mena-Vázquez N
%A Ojea-Ortega T
%A Gonzalez-Sotomayor MM
%A Cabezudo-Garcia P
%A Ciano-Petersen NL
%A Pons-Pons G
%A Castro-Sánchez MV
%A Serrano-Castro PJ
%J Neurologia (Engl Ed)
%V 35
%N 9
%D Nov 2020 0
%M 32893069
暂无%R 10.1016/j.nrl.2020.07.005
%X <B>BACKGROUND: </B>The elderly population is the group most threatened by COVID-19, with the highest mortality rates. This study aims to analyse the case fatality of COVID-19 in a cohort of patients with degenerative dementia.<BR><B>METHODS: </B>We conducted a descriptive case-control study of a sample of patients diagnosed with primary neurodegenerative dementia.<BR><B>RESULTS: </B>Twenty-four of the 88 patients with COVID-19 included in the study died: 10/23 (43.4%) patients diagnosed with dementia and 14/65 (21.5%) controls; this difference was statistically significant.<BR><B>CONCLUSIONS: </B>Our results suggest that case fatality of COVID-19 is significantly higher among patients with primary degenerative dementia than in other patients with similar mean ages and comorbidities.