Specialists of the University of Oxford and the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine analyzed data from more than 17 million Britons and identified key risk factors of death during the coronavirus. At the moment it is the largest study on the topic, giving the most complete list of factors.
Preprint cohort study published on the portal MedRxiv. Data on the health of 17.4 million people in the UK were collected from 1 February to 25 April this year. Source of steel e-statement of organizations primary care. Before becoming available to researchers, data has been anonymized.
Analysis was conducted using Cox regression model. This mathematical method allows to predict the risk of occurrence of certain events (in this case, fatal) for given object and to evaluate the influence of various factors on this risk. The total number of deaths among cases COVID-19 during the study was 5683.
higher risk to die in the presence of a diagnosis COVID-19 are exposed to blacks and Asians. Earlier it was suggested that the representatives of these peoples are more common comorbidities that worsen the course of a coronavirus, such as heart disease and diabetes. However, the current analysis has shown that this is only partially true. Scientists say that the medical community should continue to study this issue, to understand the causes.
In the category of high risk were socially disadvantaged people. How and why scientists also don’t know: direct link to other risk factors is not there. Also among the listed factors were male gender, age, presence of uncontrolled diabetes, severe forms of asthma.
