Risk factors for developing COVID-19: a population-based longitudinal study (COVIDENCE UK)

Holt, Hayley; Talaei, Mohammad; Greenig, Matthew; Zenner, Dominik; Symons, Jane; Relton, Clare; S. Young, Katherine; R. Davies, Molly; Thompson, Katherine; Ashman, Jed; Saeed Rajpoot, Sultan; Ali Kayyale, Ahmed; El Rifai, Sarah; Lloyd, Philippa; A. Jolliffe, David; Timmis, Olivia; Finer, Sarah; Iliodromiti, Stamatina; Miners, Alec; S Hopkinson, Nicholas; Alam, Bodrul; Lloyd‐Jones, Graham; Dietrich, Thomas; Chapple, Iain; Pfeffer, Paul; McCoy, David; A. Davies, Gwyneth; A Lyons, Ronan; Griffiths, Chris; Kee, Frank; Sheikh, Aziz; Breen, Gerome; O. Shaheen, Seif; R. Martineau, Adrian

doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217487

Public

Risk factors for developing COVID-19: a population-based longitudinal study (COVIDENCE UK)

Published in Thorax • Nov 30, 2021

Authors:

Hayley Holt

Mohammad Talaei

Matthew Greenig

Abstract

Background Risk factors for severe COVID-19 include older age, male sex, obesity, black or Asian ethnicity and underlying medical conditions. Whether these factors also influence susceptibility to developing COVID-19 is uncertain. Methods We undertook a prospective, population-based cohort study (CO...

View

Open Access

Subject

Medicine

Body mass index

Odds ratio

Generate AI Take for this paper

Highlights, strengths & weaknesses, commercial applications, and societal impact — written for this paper on demand.

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!