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WEDNESDAY, June 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Age-related differences in COVID-19 trends are seen among those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), with a higher concentration of cases and increased case fatality in younger individuals with IDD, according to a study published online May 24 in the Disability and Health Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Margaret A. Turk, M.D., from the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, and colleagues used data from the TriNetX COVID-19 Research Network platform to identify COVID-19 patients. The authors compared trends in comorbidities, number of cases, number of deaths, and case-fatality rate among people with and without IDD.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that the prevalence of specific comorbidities associated with poorer COVID-19 outcomes was higher for people with IDD. Among those with IDD, distinct age-related differences in COVID-19 trends were observed, with a higher concentration of COVID-19 cases at younger ages. The overall case-fatality rate was similar for those with and without IDD (5.1 versus 5.4 percent), but the rates differed by age for those with versus without IDD: ages \u226417 years, 1.6 versus <0.01 percent; ages 18 to 74 years, 4.5 versus 2.7 percent; ages \u226575 years, 21.1 versus 20.7 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n
“People with IDD had a comparatively higher case-fatality rate than those without IDD at ages 0 to 17 and 18 to 74, but a similar case-fatality rate at ages 75 and over,” the authors write. “Future work must continue to monitor COVID-19 trends among this and other disability groups with all available data sources, paying particular attention to age related trends when possible.”<\/p>\n