Claire Ufongene, Grace Van Hyfte, Parul Agarwal, Jonathan Goldstein, Brian Mathew, Allison Navis, Louise McCarthy, Churl-Su Kwon, Kapil Gururangan, Priti Balchandani, Lara Marcuse, Georges Naasan, Anuradha Singh, James Young, Alexander Charney, Girish Nadkarni, Nathalie Jette, Leah J Blank
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity in older adults, especially those with pre-existing conditions. There is little work investigating how neurological conditions affect older adults with COVID-19. We aimed to compare in-hospital outcomes, including mortality, in older adults with and without epilepsy. METHODS: This retrospective study in a large multicenter New York health system included consecutive older patients (age ≥65 years) either with or without epilepsy who were admitted with COVID-19 between 3/2020-5/2021...
November 26, 2023: Seizure: the Journal of the British Epilepsy Association