{"id":9664,"date":"2021-05-07T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:10:45","slug":"risk-factors-for-infection-and-health-impacts-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-people-with-autoimmune-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/risk-factors-for-infection-and-health-impacts-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-people-with-autoimmune-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk Factors For Infection And Health Impacts Of The Covid-19\u00a0 Pandemic In People With Autoimmune Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A prospective cohort study of persons with autoimmune or inflammatory conditions (N=4,666)\u00a0 found that persons with diabetes (OR=1.7), cardiovascular disease (OR=1.7) and kidney disease\u00a0 (OR=1.8) and patients taking glucocorticoid drugs (OR=1.4) had higher risks of COVID-19. Interruptions to healthcare were common, and persons with changes in their ability to pay for\u00a0 healthcare costs and those who experienced a COVID-19-related change to employment were most\u00a0 vulnerable to care disruptions. The authors note that these results suggest that persons with\u00a0 autoimmune or inflammatory disorders may be particularly vulnerable to downstream effects of pandemic-related disruptions to healthcare access.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fitzgerald et al. (May 6, 2021). Risk Factors For Infection And Health Impacts Of The Covid-19\u00a0 Pandemic In People With Autoimmune Diseases. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab407\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab407<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prospective cohort study of persons with autoimmune or inflammatory conditions (N=4,666)\u00a0 found that persons with diabetes (OR=1.7), cardiovascular disease (OR=1.7) and kidney disease\u00a0 (OR=1.8) and patients taking glucocorticoid drugs (OR=1.4) had higher risks of COVID-19. Interruptions to healthcare were common, and persons with changes in their ability to pay for\u00a0 healthcare costs and those&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/07\/risk-factors-for-infection-and-health-impacts-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-people-with-autoimmune-diseases\/\">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":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","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=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9665,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}