Age and sex differences in cause-specific excess mortality and years of life lost associated with COVID-19 infection in the Swedish population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Estimating excess mortality and years of life lost (YLL) attributed to coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) infection provides a comprehensive picture of the mortality burden on society. We aimed to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on age- and sex-specific excess mortality and YLL in Sweden during the first 17 months of the pandemic.

Methods

In this population-based observational study, we calculated age- and sex-specific excess all-cause mortality and excess YLL during 2020 and the first 5 months of 2021 and cause-specific death [deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, other causes and deaths excluding COVID-19] in 2020 compared with an average baseline for 2017-19 in the whole Swedish population.

Results

COVID-19 deaths contributed 9.9%

SUBMITTER: Lundberg CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10567253 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature