Project #37:
Factors associated with COVID-19 related death.
We used the newly created OpenSAFELY platform to examine factors associated with COVID-19-related death. General practice records of 17,278,392 adults were linked to 10,926 COVID-19-related deaths. A range of factors, including demographic characteristics and comorbidities were explored to determine their relationship with COVID-19 related death.
COVID-19-related death was associated with: being male; greater age and deprivation; diabetes; severe asthma; and various other medical conditions. Compared with people of white ethnicity, Black and South Asian people were at higher risk, even after adjustment for other factors.
We measured a range of factors associated with COVID-19-related death in one of the largest studies of COVID-19 on this topic at this point in time, very early in the pandemic.
- Study leads: Elizabeth Williamson, Krishnan Bhaskaran, Alex Walker
- Organisation: University of Oxford and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Project type: Research
- Topic area: Risk from COVID (short term) [e.g. hospitalisation/death]
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- Code on GitHub: opensafely/risk-factors-research
- Associated paper: View in Nature