{"id":4470,"date":"2021-02-19T20:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2021-02-19T20:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:11:41","slug":"covid-19-prevalence-and-mortality-among-schizophrenia-patients-a-large-scale-retrospective-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/covid-19-prevalence-and-mortality-among-schizophrenia-patients-a-large-scale-retrospective-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Prevalence and Mortality Among Schizophrenia Patients: A Large-Scale Retrospective Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale retrospective cohort study in Israel found that individuals with schizophrenia (n = 25,539) were twice as likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 (OR = 2.2), even after controlling for sociodemographic and clinical risk factors (OR = 1.9). They were also three times more likely to experience COVID-19 mortality (OR = 3.3) compared to people without schizophrenia. Exploratory analyses of the characteristics of individuals who were hospitalized or deceased indicated that hospitalized patients with schizophrenia were predominantly males at a higher mean age and with a higher prevalence of smoking, obesity, diabetes, and COPD.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tzur Bitan et al.\u00a0(Feb 2021). COVID-19 Prevalence and Mortality Among Schizophrenia Patients: A Large-Scale Retrospective Cohort Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin. <\/i>https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33604657\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale retrospective cohort study in Israel found that individuals with schizophrenia (n = 25,539) were twice as likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 (OR = 2.2), even after controlling for sociodemographic and clinical risk factors (OR = 1.9). They were also three times more likely to experience COVID-19 mortality (OR = 3.3) compared to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/covid-19-prevalence-and-mortality-among-schizophrenia-patients-a-large-scale-retrospective-cohort-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77,46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}