Table 5.

Sensitivity analysis for the association between pre-existing health condition and in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19.

Characteristic	Level	Number of deaths, n (%)	Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)	P value
Age	40–49	10 (0.8)	reference	–
	0–39	5 (0.4)	0.60 (0.20,1.77)	0.35
	50–59	59 (4.9)	3.54 (1.79,7.02)	< 0.001
	60–69	174 (14.4)	8.73 (4.54,16.77)	< 0.001
	70–79	366 (30.2)	14.24 (7.47,27.17)	< 0.001
	≥ 80	598 (49.3)	23.12 (12.13,44.04)	< 0.001
Sex	Male	704 (58.1)	1.40 (1.22,1.62)	< 0.001
Congestive heart failure	Yes	127 (10.5)	1.70 (1.33,2.18)	< 0.001
Cardiac arrhythmias	Yes	191 (15.8)	0.92 (0.76,1.12)	0.4
COPD	Yes	262 (21.6)	1.42 (1.18,1.71)	< 0.001
Diabetes	Yes	217 (17.9)	1.14 (0.95,1.37)	0.16
Hypertension	Yes	296 (24.4)	0.94 (0.80,1.10)	0.44
Hypothyroidism	Yes	37 (3.0)	0.91 (0.62,1.34)	0.64
Renal disease	Yes	238 (19.6)	1.84 (1.52,2.21)	< 0.001
Liver disease	Yes	27 (2.2)	2.46 (1.51,4.00)	< 0.001
Lymphoma	Yes	27 (2.2)	2.78 (1.63,4.74)	< 0.001
Metastatic cancer	Yes	33 (2.7)	2.18 (1.25,3.79)	0.006
Solid tumour without metastasis	Yes	70 (5.8)	1.69 (1.17,2.45)	0.005
Rheumatoid arthritis/ collagen vascular diseases	Yes	21 (1.7)	1.01 (0.61,1.69)	0.96
Obesity	Yes	21 (1.7)	5.27 (2.92,9.51)	< 0.001
Asthma	Yes	51 (4.2)	0.59 (0.42,0.85)	0.004
Depression	Yes	20 (1.7)	0.63 (0.37,1.00)	0.05
Dementia	Yes	185 (15.3)	1.43 (1.17,1.76)	< 0.001
Neurological disorders	Yes	72 (5.9)	1.20 (0.90,1.61)	0.22

COVID-19-related deaths were defined as COVID-19 related admissions with ICD-10 code diagnosis, including only primary or secondary diagnosis code of U07.1.

Statistically significant P < 0.05 values are in bold.

Observations, n = 5955 including 1212 COVID-19 deaths.

CI Confidence Interval.