Older age, comorbidity, glucocorticoid use and disease activity are risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalisation in patients with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

Older age, comorbidity, glucocorticoid use and disease activity are risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalisation in patients with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

Introduction Whether patients with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) are at higher risk to develop severe courses of COVID-19 has not been fully elucidated. Aim of this analysis was to describe patients with RMD according to their COVID-19 severity and to identify risk factor...

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Main Authors: Ulf Mueller-Ladner, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Tim Schmeiser, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Christof Specker, Reinhard E Voll, Anja Strangfeld, Bimba F Hoyer, Jutta Richter, Alexander Pfeil, Rebecca Hasseli, Andreas Krause, Anne Constanze Regierer, Martin Schäfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:RMD Open
Online Access:https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e001464.full

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https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/e001464.full

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