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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Neurological symptoms are frighteningly common among hospitalized covid-19 patients, and the symptoms are associated with a greater risk of death, a new study shows. A paper published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open outlines a project studying patients from around the globe. Scientists, including several at the University of Pittsburgh, analyzed data surrounding the incidence, severity and health outcomes of covid patients who experienced a litany of neurolog...

People With Neurological Conditions At Greater Risk of Death by COVID-19 Elizabeth Gardner © (Getty Images) In Control Room Doctor and Radiologist Discuss Diagnosis while Watching Procedure and Monitors Showing Brain Scans Results, In the Background Patient Undergoes MRI or CT Scan Procedure. People who have been under the care of a neurologist, for anything from a stroke to Parkinson's disease to chronic migraines, have a substantially elevated risk of dying from COVID-19. That's the top takeaway from the largest study to date on the relationship between neurological probl...

email article Hospitalized COVID-19 patients with acute neurologic syndromes and signs had a much higher risk of death, the Global Consortium Study of Neurological Dysfunction in COVID-19 (GCS-NeuroCOVID) study showed. Mortality was nearly six times higher in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with clinically verified neurologic manifestations than in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with or without neurologic features (OR 5.99, 95% CI 4.33-8.28, P