Risk factors among Black and White COVID-19 patients from a Louisiana Hospital System, March, 2020 - August, 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate relationships between race and COVID-19 hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and mortality over time and which characteristics, may mediate COVID-19 associations.

Methods

We analyzed hospital admissions, ICU admissions, and mortality among positive COVID-19 cases within the ten-hospital Franciscan Ministries of Our Lady Health System around the Mississippi River Industrial Corridor in Louisiana over four waves of the pandemic from March 1, 2020 - August 31, 2021. Associations between race and each outcome were tested, and multiple mediation analysis was performed to test if other demographic, socioeconomic, or air pollution variables mediate the race-outcome relationships.

Results

Race was associated with each outcome over

SUBMITTER: Yu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347280 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature