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Higher risk of COVID-19 death in Parkinson's patients, study findsPeople with Parkinson's disease (PD) have a 30% higher risk of COVID-19 death, according to a University of Iowa news release yesterday and a recent study in Movement Disorders.The retrospective study analyzed mortality data for 694 PD patients in a database of 79,049 US adults with COVID-19 from Jul 15 to Sep 9.

Among patients without PD, 4,290 died, compared with 148 PD patients—a 5.5% risk of death for non-PD patients versus 21.3% for PD patients (P < 0.001).

PD patients were more likely to be older, male, and less likely to be African American than patients without PD. After adjusting for differences in age, sex, racial composition, and residual confounders, the study

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