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cord-335593-cjb0daps	Romagnolo, Alberto	Neurological comorbidity and severity of COVID-19	2020-08-04		.txt	text/plain	3430	167	36	However, no data have been reported yet on the prevalence and the association with infection severity of pre-existing neurological comorbidities in COVID-19 patients. In this study, we evaluated the prevalence of neurological pre-existing comorbidities in a large cohort of patients admitted to ER and diagnosed with COVID-19, estimating their association with infection severity. Patients with neurological comorbidity showed an OR of 2.3 of suffering from severe COVID-19, even after including age and other clinical and demographic characteristics in the multivariate analysis. In conclusion, our study reports the prevalence of different neurological diseases in a large cohort of patients with COVID-19, assessing their association with the infection severity. In our sample, patients with pre-existing neurological diseases showed a significantly higher risk for severe infection, in particular when associated with other comorbidities, suggesting that this population deserves a thorough evaluation since the earliest phases of overt or suspected COVID-19.	./cache/cord-335593-cjb0daps.txt	./txt/cord-335593-cjb0daps.txt