COVID-19-Associated Mortality in US Veterans with and without SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

ABSTRACT: We performed an observational Veterans Health Administration cohort analysis to assess how risk factors affect 30-day mortality in SARS-CoV-2-infected subjects relative to those uninfected. While the risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been extensively studied, these have been seldom compared with uninfected referents. We analyzed 341,166 White/Black male veterans tested for SARS-CoV-2 from March 1 to September 10, 2020. The relative risk of 30-day mortality was computed for age, race, ethnicity, BMI, smoking status, and alcohol use disorder in infected and uninfected subjects separately. The difference in relative risk was then evaluated between infected and uninfected subjects. All the analyses were performed considering clinical confounders. In this cohort, 7% were

SUBMITTER: Suzuki A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8394601 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature