Table 4.
Characteristics of patients with COVID-19 according to disability status.
| Variables | Total | People with disabilities |
People without disabilities |
p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||||
| Total | 8070 | 619 | 7.7 | 7451 | 92.3 | ||
| Men | 3236 | 333 | 53.8 | 2903 | 39.0 | <0.001 | |
| Age group (years) | <0.001 | ||||||
| 20–59 | 2058 | 228 | 36.8 | 1830 | 24.6 | ||
| ≥60 | 6012 | 391 | 63.2 | 5621 | 75.4 | ||
| Residential area | 0.015 | ||||||
| Daegu and Gyeongbuk | 5264 | 376 | 60.7 | 4888 | 65.6 | ||
| Other regions | 2806 | 243 | 39.3 | 2563 | 34.4 | ||
| Household income | <0.001 | ||||||
| First quintile (lowest) | 2401 | 352 | 56.9 | 2049 | 27.5 | ||
| Second quintile | 1101 | 36 | 5.8 | 1065 | 14.3 | ||
| Third quintile | 1311 | 51 | 8.2 | 1260 | 16.9 | ||
| Fourth quintile | 1348 | 70 | 11.3 | 1278 | 17.2 | ||
| Fifth quintile (highest) | 1909 | 110 | 17.8 | 1799 | 24.1 | ||
| Comorbidities | |||||||
| Diabetes mellitus | 1185 | 215 | 34.7 | 970 | 13.0 | <0.001 | |
| Hypertension | 1662 | 319 | 51.5 | 1343 | 18.0 | <0.001 | |
| Dyslipidemia | 2268 | 347 | 56.1 | 1921 | 25.8 | <0.001 | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 399 | 73 | 11.8 | 326 | 4.4 | <0.001 | |
| Stroke | 266 | 106 | 17.1 | 160 | 2.1 | <0.001 | |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 136 | 34 | 5.5 | 102 | 1.4 | <0.001 | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 80 | 35 | 5.7 | 45 | 0.6 | <0.001 | |
| Cancer | 361 | 30 | 4.8 | 331 | 4.4 | 0.640 | |
| Asthma | 953 | 99 | 16.0 | 854 | 11.5 | 0.001 | |
| Mental illness | 1928 | 396 | 64.0 | 1532 | 20.6 | <0.001 | |
| Chronic liver disease | 1500 | 195 | 31.5 | 1305 | 17.5 | <0.001 | |