Retrospective cohort study of clinical characteristics of 2199 hospitalised patients with COVID-19 in New York City

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 10; no. 11; p. e040736
• Main Authors: Paranjpe, Ishan, Russak, Adam J, De Freitas, Jessica K, Lala, Anuradha, Miotto, Riccardo, Vaid, Akhil, Johnson, Kipp W, Danieletto, Matteo, Golden, Eddye, Meyer, Dara, Singh, Manbir, Somani, Sulaiman, Kapoor, Arjun, O'Hagan, Ross, Manna, Sayan, Nangia, Udit, Jaladanki, Suraj K, O’Reilly, Paul, Huckins, Laura M, Glowe, Patricia, Kia, Arash, Timsina, Prem, Freeman, Robert M, Levin, Matthew A, Jhang, Jeffrey, Firpo, Adolfo, Kovatch, Patricia, Finkelstein, Joseph, Aberg, Judith A, Bagiella, Emilia, Horowitz, Carol R, Murphy, Barbara, Fayad, Zahi A, Narula, Jagat, Nestler, Eric J, Fuster, V, Cordon-Cardo, Carlos, Charney, Dennis, Reich, David L, Just, Allan, Bottinger, Erwin P, Charney, Alexander W, Glicksberg, Benjamin S, Nadkarni, Girish N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 27.11.2020; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Original research
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; African Americans; Age; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Blood pressure; C-Reactive Protein - metabolism; Cardiovascular disease; Cohort analysis; Comorbidity; Coronary vessels; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - blood; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - mortality; Critical Care - statistics & numerical data; Demographics; Diabetes; Electronic health records; Ethnicity; Female; Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products - metabolism; Heart failure; Hispanic Americans; Hospital Mortality; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Hypertension; Infectious Diseases; internal medicine; Kidney diseases; Laboratories; Lymphocytes - metabolism; Male; Middle Aged; Mortality; New York City - epidemiology; Pacific Islander people; Pandemics; Patient admissions; Pre-existing conditions; Procalcitonin - blood; Public health; Race; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; SARS-CoV-2; Vital signs; Young Adult; New York City; New York; United States > US; New York City New York; internal medicine; public health; infectious diseases

ObjectiveThe COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health crisis, with over 33 million cases and 999 000 deaths worldwide. Data are needed regarding the clinical course of hospitalised patients, particularly in the USA. We aimed to compare clinical characteristic of patients with COVID-19 who had in-...