Table 1.
Characteristic of included studies.
| Study | Country | Study design | Sample | Age | Gender (M/F) | Symptomatic cases | Asymptomatic controls | Severe cases | Non-severe controls | Died cases | Alive controls | NOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zeng et al. (2020) | China | Retrospective | 234 | >13 | 133/101 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 137 | 21 | 76 | 6 |
| Zhao et al. (2020) | China | Retrospective | 5469 | NR | NR | 1775 | 3694 | 0 | 0 | 206 | 1569 | 8 |
| Zhao et al. (2020) | China | Retrospective | 3807 | NR | NR | 113 | 3694 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Zhao et al. (2020) | China | Retrospective | 23,671 | NR | NR | 285 | 23,386 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Zietz and Tatonetti (2020) | Columbia | Retrospective | 1559 | NR | 716/843 | 682 | 877 | 179 | 423 | 80 | 602 | 8 |
| Xiang et al. (2020) | China | Retrospective | 54 | 18–78 | 33/16 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
M/F:male/female.
NOS: Newcastle–Ottawa Scale.
NR: Not reported.