Pre-existing traits associated with Covid-19 illness severity

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 7; p. e0236240
• Main Authors: Ebinger, Joseph E, Achamallah, Natalie, Ji, Hongwei, Claggett, Brian L, Sun, Nancy, Botting, Patrick, Nguyen, Trevor-Trung, Luong, Eric, Kim, Elizabeth H, Park, Eunice, Liu, Yunxian, Rosenberry, Ryan, Matusov, Yuri, Zhao, Steven, Pedraza, Isabel, Zaman, Tanzira, Thompson, Michael, Raedschelders, Koen, Berg, Anders H, Grein, Jonathan D, Noble, Paul W, Chugh, Sumeet S, Bairey Merz, C Noel, Marbán, Eduardo, Van Eyk, Jennifer E, Solomon, Scott D, Albert, Christine M, Chen, Peter, Cheng, Susan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 23.07.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; African Americans; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Betacoronavirus; Biology and Life Sciences; Cardiology; Child; Comorbidity; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Critical care; Critical Care - statistics & numerical data; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus; Electronic health records; Electronic medical records; Female; Health care; Health risks; Heart; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Hospitals; Humans; Illnesses; Infections; Information systems; Intubation; Los Angeles - epidemiology; Male; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Morbidity; Obesity; Pandemics; Patients; People and places; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Regression analysis; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; State court decisions; Streisand, Barbra; Viral diseases; Young Adult; Los Angeles; Los Angeles California; California; United States > US; Massachusetts; China

Certain individuals, when infected by SARS-CoV-2, tend to develop the more severe forms of Covid-19 illness for reasons that remain unclear. To determine the demographic and clinical characteristics associated with increased severity of Covid-19 infection. Retrospective observational study. We curat...