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OUR NEW PAPER.
Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients.
Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere.
The power of UK / NHS data, realised.
https://opensafely.org/outputs/2020/05/covid-risk-factors/ https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.05.06.20092999v1
Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients.
Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere.
The power of UK / NHS data, realised.
https://opensafely.org/outputs/2020/05/covid-risk-factors/ https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.05.06.20092999v1
HERE IS THE PRESS RELEASE FOR OUR PAPER.
This is the largest study to date, analysing NHS health data from 17.4 MILLION UK adults between 1 Feb and 25th April 2020.
It gives the strongest evidence to date on risk factors associated with COVID-19 death.
https://opensafely.org/press-releases/2020/05/covid-risk-factors/
This is the largest study to date, analysing NHS health data from 17.4 MILLION UK adults between 1 Feb and 25th April 2020.
It gives the strongest evidence to date on risk factors associated with COVID-19 death.
https://opensafely.org/press-releases/2020/05/covid-risk-factors/
Among the 17.4 million adults in the sample, there were 5,707 deaths in hospitals attributed to COVID-19.
Key factors related to COVID-19 death included being male, older age, uncontrolled diabetes and severe asthma.
Key factors related to COVID-19 death included being male, older age, uncontrolled diabetes and severe asthma.
Deprivation was also found to be a major risk factor: this was also only partially attributable to other clinical risk factors.
A very big and important finding is on ethnicity, where we shed important new light on previous findings.
A very big and important finding is on ethnicity, where we shed important new light on previous findings.
People of Asian and Black ethnic origin were found to be at a higher risk of death. Previously, commentators and researchers have reasonably speculated that this might be due to higher prevalence of medical problems, e.g. cardiovascular disease or diabetes among BME communities..
Our study is the first to examine the full, detailed pseudonymised health records of patients who died, and 17 million adults at risk of death, to account for those other background medical factors.
We found the higher risk among BME people is NOT attributable to other factors.
We found the higher risk among BME people is NOT attributable to other factors.
This is extremely important.
God I need a sandwich. I will explain in a moment how we did it. This is the hardest, fastest, most amazing project I've ever been a part of, across many organisations. Must eat. Barely stopped for six weeks. Back in one mo.
https://opensafely.org/press-releases/2020/05/covid-risk-factors/ https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1
https://opensafely.org/press-releases/2020/05/covid-risk-factors/ https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1
