作者
Charles Agyemang, Anke Richters, Shahab Jolani, Stevie Hendriks, Saurabh Zalpuri, Evan Yu, Bart Pijls, Maria Prins, Karien Stronks, Maurice P Zeegers
发表日期
2021/11/1
来源
BMJ global health
卷号
6
期号
11
页码范围
e007433
出版商
BMJ Specialist Journals
简介
Introduction
Early literature on the COVID-19 pandemic indicated striking ethnic inequalities in SARS-CoV-2-related outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to describe the presence and magnitude of associations between ethnic groups and COVID-19-related outcomes.
Methods
PubMed and Embase were searched from December 2019 through September 2020. Studies reporting extractable data (ie, crude numbers, and unadjusted or adjusted risk/ORs) by ethnic group on any of the five studied outcomes: confirmed COVID-19 infection in the general population, hospitalisation among infected patients, and disease severity, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mortality among hospitalised patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, were included using standardised electronic data extraction forms. We pooled data from published studies using random-effects meta-analysis.
Results
58 studies were …
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