Environmental and societal factors associated with COVID-19-related death in people with rheumatic disease: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Differences in the distribution of individual-level clinical risk factors across regions do not fully explain the observed global disparities in COVID-19 outcomes. We aimed to investigate the associations between environmental and societal factors and country-level variations in mortality attributed to COVID-19 among people with rheumatic disease globally.

Methods

In this observational study, we derived individual-level data on adults (aged 18-99 years) with rheumatic disease and a confirmed status of their highest COVID-19 severity level from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance (GRA) registry, collected between March 12, 2020, and Aug 27, 2021. Environmental and societal factors were obtained from publicly available sources. The primary endpoint was mortali

SUBMITTER: Izadi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9313519 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature