Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Hospitalized covid‐19 Patients: a propensity Score Matched Cohort Study

Background and Aims: Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding has been observed among patients 

hospitalized with COVID-19. Recently anticoagulation has shown to decrease mortality, but it is 

unclear if this contributes to increased GI bleeding. 

The aims of this study are: 1) to examine if there are risk factors for GI bleeding in COVID-19 

patients 2) to study whether there is a mortality difference between hospitalized patients with COVID-

19 with and without GI bleeding.   

Methods: This is a propensity score matched case-control study from a large health system in the 

New York metropolitan area between March 1

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 and April 27

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.