MedPageToday 20% of patients with both died during pandemic’s first year versus 7% of those with PE alone.
During the first year of the pandemic, patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) had higher in-hospital mortality rates when they also had concomitant COVID-19, according to a nationwide retrospective cohort study.
Using data from the 2020 National Inpatient Sample Database (NIS), 19.8% of patients with both PE and COVID died in the hospital compared with 7.1% of those with PE but without COVID (adjusted OR 3.16, 95% CI 3.07-3.25, P<0.001), reported Rana Prathap Padappayil, MBBS, of Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, during the CHEST annual meeting hosted by the American College of Chest Physicians.