Table 1.

General characteristics of COVID-19 patients stratified by the presence of comorbid MS

	Comorbid MS (n = 551)	No comorbid MS (n = 156,973)	P-Value
Female (n, %)	346, 62.8	75,593, 48.2	< 0.001
Male (n, %)	205, 37.2	81,380, 51.8	< 0.001
Age (mean ± SD)	60.3 ± 4.5	66.9 ± 7.3	< 0.001
Age ≥ 60 years (n, %)	289, 52.5	106,986, 68.2	< 0.001
Admission to ICU (n, %)	94, 17.1	35,564, 22.7	< 0.001
Ventilation (n, %)	54, 9.8	22,692, 14.5	< 0.001
In-hospital mortality (n, %)	61, 11.1	30,246, 19.3	< 0.001