{"id":1745,"date":"2023-01-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2023-09-29T01:55:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:55:01","slug":"age-related-macular-degeneration-a-risk-factor-for-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/age-related-macular-degeneration-a-risk-factor-for-covid-19-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-Related Macular Degeneration a Risk Factor for COVID-19 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent evidence has emerged to suggest that age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a clinical risk factor for increased risk for infection and mortality. AMD has been reported to confer higher risk of severe complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including respiratory failure and death (25&nbsp;percent), a risk which is higher than Type&nbsp;2 diabetes (21&nbsp;percent) and obesity (13&nbsp;percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent evidence has emerged to suggest that age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a clinical risk factor for increased risk for infection and mortality. AMD has been reported to confer higher risk of severe complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including respiratory failure and death (25&nbsp;percent), a risk which is higher than Type&nbsp;2 diabetes (21&nbsp;percent) and obesity (13&nbsp;percent).<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/age-related-macular-degeneration-a-risk-factor-for-covid-19-infection\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Age-Related Macular Degeneration a Risk Factor for COVID-19 Infection<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[410,411,414,18,412,413,8,14],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-age-related-macular-degeneration","tag-amd","tag-boston-university","tag-covid-19","tag-eye-diseases","tag-ocular-diseases","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}