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Risk factors for Covid-19 death in world’s largest analysis of patient records
- stevesimmons 6y agoMedia reports over the last two months mention many risk factors for dying from Covid-19. But there is very little reliable data on their relative importance. This new study does exactly that. It compares all UK Covid-19 hospital deaths with 17m electronic patient records held by the NHS (National Health Service). The headline conclusions aren't surprising: risk factors are older, gender, ethnic miniorities, co-morbidities like diabetes/asthma. Smoking is a mild risk reduction. To see how the relative factors compare, check out the graph on p12 of the PDF preprint: * https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v... The code is on GitHub: * https://github.com/ebmdatalab/opensafely-risk-factors-research https://github.com/ebmdatalab/opensafely-risk-factors-resear...