{"id":8307,"date":"2021-04-01T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:03:04","slug":"risk-factors-associated-with-sars-cov-2-infections-hospitalization-and-mortality-among-us-nursing-home-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/01\/risk-factors-associated-with-sars-cov-2-infections-hospitalization-and-mortality-among-us-nursing-home-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Hospitalization, and Mortality Among US Nursing Home Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Individual-level factors were more likely to be associated with risk of SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalization and death than risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In a retrospective longitudinal cohort study of over 482,000 long-stay nursing home residents, risk of hospitalization was associated with BMI &gt;45; male sex; Hispanic, Black, or Asian race\/ethnicity; comorbidities; and older age (&gt;90 years). In contrast, only BMI was associated with risk of infection. Facility and county-level factors explained 37% and 23% of the variation in risk of infection, respectively).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mehta et al.\u00a0(Mar 31, 2021). Risk Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Hospitalization, and Mortality Among US Nursing Home Residents. JAMA Network Open. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.6315\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.6315<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual-level factors were more likely to be associated with risk of SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalization and death than risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In a retrospective longitudinal cohort study of over 482,000 long-stay nursing home residents, risk of hospitalization was associated with BMI &gt;45; male sex; Hispanic, Black, or Asian race\/ethnicity; comorbidities; and older age (&gt;90 years). In&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/01\/risk-factors-associated-with-sars-cov-2-infections-hospitalization-and-mortality-among-us-nursing-home-residents\/\">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":[150,29,46],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-congregate-settings","tag-public-health","tag-risk-factors","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","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=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}