MedPage Today (12/12, Firth) reports, “Patients with cocaine or opioid use disorder…had a higher risk of endocarditis if they also contracted COVID-19, a retrospective study showed.” Investigators found that “COVID-19 infection was associated with an increased risk of newly diagnosed cases of endocarditis among patients with opioid use disorder…and with cocaine use disorder…compared with matched controls who didn’t have COVID.” The findings were published in Molecular Psychiatry. For the study, the researchers “used the nationwide TriNet Analytics Network database to analyze 109 million electronic health records…from a range of healthcare organizations across all 50 states, including 736,502 people with opioid use disorder and 379,623 people with cocaine use disorder.”
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