{"id":5468,"date":"2020-03-26T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:56:22","slug":"analysis-of-epidemiological-and-clinical-features-in-older-patients-with-corona-virus-disease-2019-covid-19-out-of-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/26\/analysis-of-epidemiological-and-clinical-features-in-older-patients-with-corona-virus-disease-2019-covid-19-out-of-wuhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Epidemiological and Clinical features in older patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) out of Wuhan."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This retrospective study of 788 COVID-19 patients, 136 of whom were older patients (60+ years), from Wuhan describes the specific epidemiological and clinical features of older COVID-19 patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study finds that these older patients were more likely to: be female gender; have high body temperature; show familiar clustering; have co-existing basic diseases, dyspnea, or lymphocytopenia; develop severe\/critical infection type and be admitted to ICU; have higher levels of AST, CK, LDH, CRP; and have lower levels of haemoglobin and albumin when compared to the\u00a0 younger patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lian et al. (Mar 25, 2020). Analysis of Epidemiological and Clinical features in older patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) out of Wuhan. Clin Infec Dis. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa242\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa242<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This retrospective study of 788 COVID-19 patients, 136 of whom were older patients (60+ years), from Wuhan describes the specific epidemiological and clinical features of older COVID-19 patients. The study finds that these older patients were more likely to: be female gender; have high body temperature; show familiar clustering; have co-existing basic diseases, dyspnea, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/26\/analysis-of-epidemiological-and-clinical-features-in-older-patients-with-corona-virus-disease-2019-covid-19-out-of-wuhan\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}