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Prior fluid and electrolyte imbalance is associated with COVID-19 mortality

Satu Nahkuri, Tim Becker, Vitalia Schueller, Steffen Maßberg, Anna Bauer‐Mehren

Communications Medicine · 2021

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Summary

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major public health threat. Risk of death from the infection is associated with age and pre-existing comorbidities such as diabetes, dementia, cancer, and impairment of immunological, hepatic or renal function. It remains incompletely understood why some patients survive the disease, while others do not. As such, we sought to identify novel prognostic factors for COVID-19 mortality. Methods: We performed an unbiased, observational retrospective analysis of real world data. Our multivariable and univariable analyses make use of U.S. electronic health records from 122,250 COVID-19 patients in the early stages of the pandemic. Results: Here we show that a priori diagnoses of fluid, pH and electrolyte imbalance during the year preceding the infect

Subject
Dietary patterns & chronic disease
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1038/s43856-021-00051-x
Catalogue ID
SNmotmpttk-f9a06s
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