… Our stratified analyses clearly showed that higher COVID-19 severity was more likely to
occur in all underlying medical conditions in the Asian region compared to other regions. …

… of severity of illness. The random-effects summary estimate of the standardised mean difference
(SMD) indicated higher severity … of the time at which severity of illness was measured (at …

… Finally, the severe nature of subjects included in this meta-analysis means that the result
of this meta-analysis results are applicable to patients admitted with severe clinical conditions …

… Furthermore, higher mortality was noticed in the included studies … this meta-analysis we
provided two models which both reported a significant increase in the risk of COVID-19 severity …

… severe conditions had a higher rate of comorbidities and complications than patients with
non-severe … of the results of one meta-analysis were not consistent with our analysis, since they …

… -severe even when they are actually at higher risk of death. However, as there was only a
relatively small percentage of deaths (7.4%) among study participants, the negative predictive …

… higher unhealthy habits than women, such as a higher proportion of smoking and drinking.
Our study also shows that men have a higher risk of COVID-19 infection than women (severe …

… BMI of the non-severe and severe patient groups (Figure ​4). … meta-analysis showed that
severe AP patients have a significantly higher BMI compared to those with moderately severe …

… [88,89,90,91] Our results revealed that some of these biomarkers (ASAT/ALAT, γ-GT, LDH)
have a significantly higher level in severe cases, and that severe cases are more likely to …

… be limits on the severity of patients included in such trials, restricting our ability to test the
moderating effects of severity at the higher range. We assessed the severity of patients included …