Risk Factors for Severe Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
subject: mortality, obesity, BMI, coronavirus disease (covid-19)
description: Background: During the recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic there have been several studies implicating an association between obesity, COVID-19 severity, and mortality. This retrospective study aims to investigate the association between obesity, other risk factors, and COVID-19 mortality of patients admitted over a 6-week period to the respiratory units at the authors’ hospitals.Methods: This is a retrospective study of 71 patients who were admitted into a respiratory unit over a 6-week period where the data were analysed for correlation between various risk factors, COVID-19 severity, and mortality. The statistical analysis was performed using excel statistics and SPSS (IBM, Armonk, New York, USA) statistical software. The significance was considered at p70 years old (p
creator: Abdulzahra Hussain, Deepak Rao, Thomas Buttle, Lynette Linkson, William Owen, Elizabeth Hadley, Shamsi EL-Hasani
source: Epidemiology and Health
publisher: Korean Society of Epidemiology
date: 2020
coverage: Medicine, Diseases of the respiratory system