Neurological diseases and risk of mortality in patients with COVID-19 and SARS: a territory-wide study in Hong Kong

COVID-19 is caused by ß-coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Recent reports suggested that neurological diseases, in particular stroke, dementia and advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD), were important predictors of COVID-19-related mortality.1–3 SARS-CoV was another ß-coronavirus which resulted in the epidemic of SARS in late 2002 to early 2003. Apparently, it remained quiescent since 2004 but its re-emergence…

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Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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