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The elderly population is categorized as a risk group for COVID-19 infection, and dementia is the primary cause of disability in elderly individuals and affects 70 % of the elderly population. In this study, we evaluated the blood and serum biomarkers of deceased dementia patients infected by COVID-19 compared to the survived dementia and non-dementia patients.

Laboratory biomarkers of 11 dementia patients infected by COVID-19 have been used for this study. The five patients’ serum biochemistry and blood data were compared with the six patients who died because of COVID-19. Additionally, data from nine patients aged 85–96 infected with COVID-19 without dementia have been used to compare the difference between dementia and non-dementia individuals.

D-dimer, C-reactive protein (CRP), glucose, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate …