Title:
Heart Failure Doubles Risk of Dying From COVID-19
Author:
L.A. McKeown
Published:
tctMD, 30 October 2020
From the article:
Patients with a history of heart failure (HF) who are hospitalized for COVID-19 are nearly twice as likely to die as those without a HF history, according to new data on patients treated as the pandemic rocked New York City.
“When I started this study, I thought yes, they'll be at higher risk for adverse outcomes, but I did not expect for it to be to this degree,” senior author Anuradha Lala, MD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY), told TCTMD.
See also:
Alvarez-Garcia J, Lee S, Gupta A, et al. Prognostic impact of prior heart failure in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2020;76:2334-2348.