{"id":1099,"date":"2020-09-23T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:28:57","slug":"risk-factors-for-hospitalization-mechanical-ventilation-or-death-among-10-131-us-veterans-with-sars-cov-2-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/risk-factors-for-hospitalization-mechanical-ventilation-or-death-among-10-131-us-veterans-with-sars-cov-2-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk Factors for Hospitalization, Mechanical Ventilation, or Death Among 10 131 US Veterans With SARS-CoV-2 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In a national cohort of 88,747 veterans in the US, 11% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 from February to May 2020. Veterans with positive PCR results were predominantly male (91%) with a mean age of 64 (SD=16) years. Positive patients had increased rates of 30-day hospitalization (aHR=1.1), mechanical ventilation (aHR=4.2), and death (aHR=4.4). Among positive patients, characteristics significantly associated with mortality included older age, high regional COVID-19 disease burden, higher Charlson comorbidity index score, fever, shortness of breath, and abnormalities in certain blood tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ioannou et al. (Sept 23, 2020). Risk Factors for Hospitalization, Mechanical Ventilation, or Death Among 10 131 US Veterans With SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JAMA Network Open. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.22310\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.22310<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a national cohort of 88,747 veterans in the US, 11% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 from February to May 2020. Veterans with positive PCR results were predominantly male (91%) with a mean age of 64 (SD=16) years. Positive patients had increased rates of 30-day hospitalization (aHR=1.1), mechanical ventilation (aHR=4.2), and death (aHR=4.4). Among positive patients,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/risk-factors-for-hospitalization-mechanical-ventilation-or-death-among-10-131-us-veterans-with-sars-cov-2-infection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}