Infection rate, mortality and characteristics of veterans with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with COVID-19
Muscle Nerve
.
2021 Oct;64(4):E18-E20.
doi: 10.1002/mus.27373.
Epub 2021 Jul 30.
Authors
Marinella D Galea
1
2
3
,
Vincent P Galea
2
,
Adam C Eberhart
4
,
Huned S Patwa
5
6
,
Ileana Howard
7
8
,
Christina N Fournier
9
10
,
Richard S Bedlack
11
12
Affiliations
1
Departement of Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders, The James J Peters VAMC, Bronx, New York, USA.
2
The Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
3
School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.
4
Departemnt of Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders, VA St Louis Medical Center John Cochran Division, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
5
Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
6
Department of Neurology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
7
Rehabilitation Care Services, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, Washington, USA.
8
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
9
Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
10
Department of Neurology, Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
11
Department of Neurology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
12
Department of Neurology, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
PMID:
34255865
PMCID:
PMC8441861
DOI:
10.1002/mus.27373
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
MeSH terms
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / diagnosis*
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / mortality*
COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / mortality*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality / trends
Veterans*
Grants and funding
UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States