作者
Janice L Atkins, Jane AH Masoli, Joao Delgado, Luke C Pilling, Chia-Ling Kuo, George A Kuchel, David Melzer
发表日期
2020/11
期刊
The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
卷号
75
期号
11
页码范围
2224-2230
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients tend to be older and frequently have hypertension, diabetes, or coronary heart disease, but whether these comorbidities are true risk factors (ie, more common than in the general older population) is unclear. We estimated associations between preexisting diagnoses and hospitalized COVID-19 alone or with mortality, in a large community cohort.
Methods
UK Biobank (England) participants with baseline assessment 2006–2010, followed in hospital discharge records to 2017 and death records to 2020. Demographic and preexisting common diagnoses association tested with hospitalized laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (March 16 to April 26, 2020), alone or with mortality, in logistic models.
Results
Of 269 070 participants aged older than 65, 507 (0.2%) became COVID-19 hospital inpatients, of which 141 (27.8 …
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