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Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who presented with altered mental state had significantly higher risk of in-hospital death, even when pulmonary problems were not severe, a retrospective study showed.
Patients admitted to the hospital with confirmed SARS-Cov2 infection and altered mentation had a higher mortality risk than age- and severity-matched controls (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.04-1.86,
P=0.04), reported David Altschul, MD, of Montefiore Health Care System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and colleagues, in Patients presenting with COVID-19 and altered mental status have a different hospital course than other patients with COVID-19. They are more likely to have abnormal presenting lab biomarker values and less likely to have classic COVID signs such as fever and oxygen desaturation, Altschul said.