Rebecca Hasseli, Frank Hanses, Melanie Stecher, Christof Specker, Tobias Weise, Stefan Borgmann, Martina Hasselberger, Bernd Hertenstein, Martin Hower, Bimba F Hoyer, Carolin Koll, Andreas Krause, Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Uta Merle, Susana M Nunes de Miranda, Mathias W Pletz, Anne C Regierer, Jutta G Richter, Siegbert Rieg, Christoph Roemmele, Maria M Ruethrich, Tim Schmeiser, Hendrik Schulze-Koops, Anja Strangfeld, Maria J G T Vehreschild, Florian Voit, Reinhard E Voll, Jörg Janne Vehreschild, Ulf Müller-Ladner, Alexander Pfeil
OBJECTIVES: To investigate, whether inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) inpatients are at higher risk to develop a severe course of SARS-CoV-2 infections compared to the general population, data from the German COVID-19 registry for IRD patients and data from the Lean European Survey on SARS-CoV-2 (LEOSS) infected patients covering inpatients from the general population with SARS-CoV-2 infections were compared. METHODS: 4310 (LEOSS registry) and 1139 cases (IRD registry) were collected in general...
2024: Frontiers in Medicine