Risk factors for severity on admission and the disease progression during hospitalisation in a large cohort of patients with COVID-19 in Japan

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 11; no. 6; p. e047007
• Main Authors: Terada, Mari, Ohtsu, Hiroshi, Saito, Sho, Hayakawa, Kayoko, Tsuzuki, Shinya, Asai, Yusuke, Matsunaga, Nobuaki, Kutsuna, Satoshi, Sugiura, Wataru, Ohmagari, Norio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London British Medical Journal Publishing Group 15.06.2021; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Original research
• Subjects: Chemotherapy; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Comorbidity; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Data collection; Datasets; Diabetes; Epidemiology; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Fatalities; Infectious Diseases; Kidney diseases; Leukemia; Pandemics; Patients; Peritoneal dialysis; Public health; Regression analysis; Risk factors; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; virology; Japan

ObjectivesTo investigate the risk factors contributing to severity on admission. Additionally, risk factors of worst severity and fatality were studied. Moreover, factors were compared based on three points: early severity, worst severity and fatality.DesignAn observational cohort study using data e...