{"id":1437,"date":"2020-10-08T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:18:15","slug":"increased-risk-of-covid-%e2%80%9019-infection-and-mortality-in-people-with-mental-disorders-analysis-from-electronic-health-records-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/08\/increased-risk-of-covid-%e2%80%9019-infection-and-mortality-in-people-with-mental-disorders-analysis-from-electronic-health-records-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased Risk of COVID \u201019 Infection and Mortality in People with Mental Disorders: Analysis from Electronic Health Records in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An analysis of a nation-wide electronic health record database in the US with patient data up to July 2020 shows that patients with a recent diagnosis of a mental health disorder had a significantly higher risk of being diagnosed with COVID-19. The effect was strongest among those diagnosed with depression and schizophrenia. Among those diagnosed with a mental health disorder, African American people and women were disproportionately affected. Among those diagnosed with COVID-19, death rates were 8.5% and 4.7%, and hospitalization rates were 27.4% and 18.6%, among patients with and without a diagnosed mental disorder, respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wang et al. (Oct 7, 2020). Increased Risk of COVID \u201019 Infection and Mortality in People with Mental Disorders: Analysis from Electronic Health Records in the United States. World Psychiatry. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/wps.20806\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/wps.20806<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of a nation-wide electronic health record database in the US with patient data up to July 2020 shows that patients with a recent diagnosis of a mental health disorder had a significantly higher risk of being diagnosed with COVID-19. The effect was strongest among those diagnosed with depression and schizophrenia. Among those diagnosed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/08\/increased-risk-of-covid-%e2%80%9019-infection-and-mortality-in-people-with-mental-disorders-analysis-from-electronic-health-records-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,46],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","tag-risk-factors","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}