Table 1.
Risk factors for severe disease and death in COVID-19 patients—a summary from multiple recent studies.
| Study | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk factors for severe disease and death | Zheng et al. [19] | Li et al. [15] | Zhang et al.∗ [16] | Wang et al. [21] | Bianchetti et al. [23] | Docherty et al.∗∗ [20] | |
| Age over 65 years | OR = 6.06, 95% CI (3.98-9.22) | OR = 2.2, 95% CI (1.5-3.5) | OR = 4.791, 95% CI (3.018-7.606) | ||||
| Male gender | OR = 1.76, 95% CI (1.41-2.18) | OR = 0.520, 95% CI (0.355-0.761) | |||||
| Smoking | OR = 2.51, 95% CI (398-9.22) | ||||||
| Diabetes | OR = 3.68, 95% CI (2.68-5.03) | OR = 2.47, 95% CI (1.67-3.66) | |||||
| Hypertension | OR = 2.72, 95% CI (1.60-4.64) | OR = 2.0, 95% CI (1.3-3.2) | OR = 2.29, 95% CI (1.69-3.10) | ||||
| Cardiovascular disease | OR = 5.19, 95% CI (3.25-8.29) | OR = 2.436, 95% CI (1.503-3.948) | OR = 2.93, 95% CI (1.73-4.96) | HR = 1.16 (1.08-1.24) | |||
| Respiratory disease | OR = 5.15, 95% CI (2.51-10.57) | OR = 5.97, 95% CI (2.49-14.29) | HR = 1.17 (1.09-1.27) | ||||
| Cerebrovascular disease | OR = 3.89, 95% CI (1.64-9.22) | HR = 1.17 (1.06-1.29) | |||||
| Dementia | OR = 1.84, 95% CI (1.09-3.13) | HR = 1.40 (1.28-1.52) | |||||
| Malignancy | HR = 1.13 (1.02-1.24) | ||||||
∗Only patients over 60 years old were taken into consideration. ∗∗The HR values are calculated for the hazard representing death. All the values presented in the table had statistical significance (p value <0.05).