Association Between Pre-Existing Conditions and COVID-19 Hospitalization, Intensive Care Services, and Mortality: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of an International Global Health Data Repository.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of globally shared individual-level data in answering epidemiological questions during health emergencies of international concern is still debatable. In this study, we investigated the association between pre-existing conditions and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 using data from a global data sharing repository.

Methods

We used data of all cases recorded in the Global Health Data repository up to the 10th of March 2021 to carry out a cross-sectional analysis of associations between cardiovascular diseases (CVD), hypertension, diabetes, obesity, lung diseases, and kidney disease and hospitalization, ICU admission, and mortality due to COVID-19. The Global Health repository reported data from 137 countries, but only Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba reported more tha

SUBMITTER: Elsayed BMS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12472582 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature