Risk Factors for Severe Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Risk Factors for Severe Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

Abdulzahra Hussain, Deepak Rao, Thomas Buttle, Lynette Linkson, William Owen, Elizabeth Hadley, Shamsi EL-Hasani

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

2020

mortality, obesity, BMI, coronavirus disease (covid-19)

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Medicine, Diseases of the respiratory system