TABLE 1.

Demographics and comorbidities by COVID‐19 death status

Demographics	Alive 5089 (95.4%)	Died 244 (4.6%)
Male sex	3243 (63.8%)	187 (76.6%)
Age (years)	43.5 (17.1)	58.8 (13.4)
Nationality
Kuwaiti	2851 (56.4%)	107 (44.0%)
Other (40 Nationalities + ‘Other’)	2205 (43.6%)	136 (56.0%)
Missing	33	1
Ethnicity
African/Black	27 (0.5%)	1 (0.4%)
Arab	3410 (67.5%)	143 (58.6%)
Caucasian	60 (1.2%)	4 (1.6%)
East Asian	6 (0.1%)	1 (0.4%)
South Asian	1547 (30.6%)	95 (38.9%)
Missing	39	0
Type 2 diabetes	1186 (23.4%)	131 (54.6%)
Cardiovascular disease	245 (4.8%)	36 (15.0%)
Cancer history	68 (1.3%)	11 (4.6%)
Hypertension	1275 (25.1%)	142 (59.2%)
Kidney disease	128 (2.5%)	25 (10.4%)
Respiratory disease	491 (9.7%)	26 (10.8%)