94% of NYC coronavirus hospital patients suffered from underlying health condition: Study
by Andrew Mark Miller
| April 23, 2020 07:22 PM
Almost every hospital patient admitted for the coronavirus in New York was already suffering from an underlying health condition.
A study published this week by the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that 94% of coronavirus patients in the New York City area, the hardest-hit region in the United States, were suffering from another disease other than COVID-19, according to Time magazine.
Researchers examined the medical records of 5,700 coronavirus patients who had been admitted to the hospital system with the largest amount of cases in the country in March and early April.
The median patient age was 63 years old, and the most common underlying ailments were hypertension, affecting 53% of the patients, and obesity, affecting 42% of patients with BMI data. 32% of the patients were admitted already suffering from diabetes.
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