A study analyzing electronic health records (EHR) of patients in the United States identified key findings regarding COVID-19 and chronic liver disease (CLD):

• Patients with CLD, particularly those with a recent clinical encounter in the past year, had a significantly higher risk of contracting COVID-19 compared to those without CLD.
• African Americans with CLD were twice as likely to contract COVID-19 compared to Caucasians.
• COVID-19 patients with CLD faced increased hospitalization and mortality rates compared to both COVID-19 negative patients with CLD and COVID-19 positive patients without CLD.