{"id":5655,"date":"2020-04-03T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:25:41","slug":"population-based-estimates-of-comorbidities-affecting-risk-for-complications-from-covid-19-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/population-based-estimates-of-comorbidities-affecting-risk-for-complications-from-covid-19-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Population based estimates of comorbidities affecting risk for complications from COVID-19 in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2017 national BRFSS data indicates that 45% of adults in the US are at potentially heightened risk of complications from COVID-19 due to having at least 1 of 6 co-morbidities (cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and cancer excluding skin).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While these rates increase with age group to about 80% among those 70 years or older, 53% of those at heightened risk of complications are younger than 60 years of age.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adams et al. (Mar 30, 2020). Population based estimates of comorbidities affecting risk for complications from COVID-19 in the US. Pre-print downloaded Apr 3 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.30.20043919\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.30.20043919<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 national BRFSS data indicates that 45% of adults in the US are at potentially heightened risk of complications from COVID-19 due to having at least 1 of 6 co-morbidities (cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and cancer excluding skin).\u00a0 While these rates increase with age group to about 80% among those&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/population-based-estimates-of-comorbidities-affecting-risk-for-complications-from-covid-19-in-the-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5656,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions\/5656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}