Table 5.

HR representing the risk of death and of requiring hospital care and outpatients specialist visits for COVID-19 convalescent patients vs controls, adjusting for age, sex and occurrence of hospital admissions and/or accesses to emergency room over the 365 days before the index date

	HR (overall)	HR (according to time to recovery)
		1–14 days (n=10 469)	15–19 days (n=10 022)	20–21 days (n=7235)	>21 days (n=8310)
Non-surgical h admissions	1.04 (0.94–1.15)	0.93 (0.78–1.10)	0.85 (0.72–1.01)	0.88 (0.74–1.06)	1.06 (0.92–1.21)
H admissions for respiratory disease	1.42 (1.02–2.00)	1.41 (0.78–2.53)	0.74 (0.37–1.48)	0.94 (0.51–1.76)	1.98 (1.32–2.95)
H admissions for heart disease	1.43 (1.07–1.88)	1.43 (0.92–2.25)	1.11 (0.69–1.78)	1.45 (0.93–2.28)	1.62 (1.13–2.33)
Accesses to emergency room	1.13 (1.08–1.19)	1.05 (0.98–1.13)	1.16 (1.08–1.24)	1.12 (1.03–1.21)	1.27 (1.19–1.36)
Death	2.50 (1.83–3.42)	1.45 (0.81–2.58)	0.88 (0.45–1.69)	2.03 (1.25–3.30)	3.89 (2.73–5.55)
Outpatient specialist visits
Pneumology	1.79 (1.59–2.01)	1.44 (1.20–1.73)	1.77 (1.49–2,10)	1.58 (1.30–1.93)	2.90 (2.49–3.37)
Cardiology	1.19 (1.11–1.29)	1.22 (1.09–1.37)	1.23 (1.08–1.39)	1.18 (1.03–1.34)	1.39 (1.25–1.54)
Neurology	1.07 (0.97–1.17)	1.00 (0.87–1.15)	1.04 (0.90–1.19)	1.14 (0.98–1.33)	1.23 (1.09–1.41)
Reumathology	1.16 (1.03–1.30)	1.09 (0.92–1.30)	1.11 (0.93–1.31)	1.09 (0.90–1.33)	1.16 (1.00–1.38)
Gastroenterology	0.88 (0.76–1.04)	0.75 (0.58–0.98)	0.96 (0.75–1.22)	1.06 (0.82–1.38)	0.97 (0.76–1.25)
Mental health	0.87 (0.72–1.07)	0.77 (0.57–1.04)	0.86 (0.63–1.16)	0.86 (0.61–1.21)	0.81 (0.58–1.14)
Dermatology	1.06 (0.99–1.13)	1.04 (0.94–1.16)	1.07 (0.97–1.19)	1.07 (0.95–1.21)	1.01 (0.90–1.13)
Endocrinology	1.09 (1.02–1.17)	1.11 (1.00–1.24)	1.17 (1.05–1.29)	1.07 (0.95–1.21)	1.12 (1.01–1.23)

HRs are reported also according to time to swab test negativity (or otherwise certified end of disease).