{"id":1683,"date":"2020-10-20T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:40:44","slug":"a-case-control-and-cohort-study-to-determine-the-relationship-between-ethnic-background-and-severe-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/20\/a-case-control-and-cohort-study-to-determine-the-relationship-between-ethnic-background-and-severe-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case-Control and Cohort Study to Determine the Relationship between Ethnic Background and Severe COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A case-control study determined that Black and multiracial people were three times as likely to be admitted to a hospital for COVID-19 treatment when compared to white people living in the same neighborhoods in London. Cases were defined as patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 and controls were drawn from an administrative database in the same area. After adjusting for comorbidities and socioeconomic status, the admission risk for COVID-19 remained 2.2 to 2.7-fold higher. Racial\/ethnic minority patients were on average 10\u201315 years younger than white patients, but had a higher prevalence of comorbidities, such as diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zakeri et al. (Oct 9, 2020). A Case-Control and Cohort Study to Determine the Relationship between Ethnic Background and Severe COVID-19. EClinicalMedicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eclinm.2020.100574\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eclinm.2020.100574<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case-control study determined that Black and multiracial people were three times as likely to be admitted to a hospital for COVID-19 treatment when compared to white people living in the same neighborhoods in London. Cases were defined as patients admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 and controls were drawn from an administrative database in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/20\/a-case-control-and-cohort-study-to-determine-the-relationship-between-ethnic-background-and-severe-covid-19\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}