The swedish covid-19 intensive care cohort: Risk factors of ICU admission and ICU mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several studies have recently addressed factors associated with severe Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, some medications and comorbidities have yet to be evaluated in a large matched cohort. We therefore explored the role of relevant comorbidities and medications in relation to the risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mortality.

Methods

All ICU COVID-19 patients in Sweden until 27 May 2020 were matched to population controls on age and gender to assess the risk of ICU admission. Cases were identified, comorbidities and medications were retrieved from high-quality registries. Three conditional logistic regression models were used for risk of ICU admission and three Cox proportional hazards models for risk of ICU mortality, one with comorbidi

SUBMITTER: Ahlstrom B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8013403 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature