Healio (12/5, Downey) reports, “Patients with PTSD who were diagnosed with COVID-19 were more likely to be hospitalized or die, compared with those without a psychiatric disorder, researchers reported” in a “retrospective cohort study that examined the associations of PTSD and other psychiatric disorders with risk for hospitalization and death in the 60 days following a COVID-19 infection.” For the study published online Nov. 22 in Translational Psychiatry, the team “identified a total of 228,367 patients…from the VA who tested positive for COVID-19 between February 2020 and August 2021.”
Related Links:
— “Patients with PTSD at an increased risk for hospitalization, death from COVID-19 “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, December 5, 2022