Videos / BHF DSC Monthly Webinar: February 2024 Impact of Covid-19 - Intellectual Disabilities (34:09)
BHF DSC Monthly Webinar: February 2024 Impact of Covid-19 - Intellectual Disabilities (34:09)
British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre
UK Dementia Research Institute
14 July 2026
Last Updated
This month we were joined by Research Associate, Filip Sosenko from the University of Glasgow. Filip discussed the findings from the first study in England to investigate Covid-19 mortality rates, hospitalisation rates, and risk factors in people with Intellectual Disabilities in England. The study’s main contribution lies in highlighting very high levels of multi-morbidity among people with Intellectual Disabilities, as the primary factor responsible for their higher risk of Covid-19 hospitalisation or death.
- 00:00 Introduction
- 03:13 Background
- 07:15 Research Questions
- 08:22 Methods
- 09:50 Results
- 24:57 Questions
- 33:45 Thank you and close
Organisations
British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre
The British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre (BHF DSC) is a partnership between Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) enabling data-led research to improve heart and circulatory health.
It sits within HDR UK and works with a wide range of partners including patients, public, clinicians, researchers and NHS organisations to help them carry out research using health data into the causes, prevention and treatment of all diseases of the heart and circulation (such heart attacks, stroke and vascular dementia).
UK Dementia Research Institute