Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, doctors have found that some people are more vulnerable to Covid-19. About 5% of people with Covid-19 progress to a severe or critical form and in particular develop severe pneumonia transforming into acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Initial research has shown that these serious forms occur in patients with a genetic or immunological deficiency of certain antiviral molecules. But researchers from the University of Iowa have identified other people at risk of a severe form of Covid: people with Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s patients are 30% more likely to suffer from a severe form
While a recent study suggested that, in the long term, Covid-19 risks causing neurological sequelae and a wave of Parkinson’s patients, this time, in contrast, researchers say that Parkinson’s patients are 30% more likely to suffer from a severe form of Covid-19.
For this study published in the medical journal Movement Disorders, the researchers studied a cohort of patients on the date of July 15 and analyzed the mortality rates 8 weeks later. Result: 21.3% of patients also suffering from Parkinson’s disease had died, compared to 5.5% of patients without the disease.
“This increased risk may be related to the fact that pneumonia is a leading cause of death in people with Parkinson’s disease,” the scientists point out.
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