{"id":8449,"date":"2020-07-23T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:44:50","slug":"estimated-county-level-prevalence-of-selected-underlying-medical-conditions-associated-with-increased-risk-for-severe-covid-19-illness-united-states-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/23\/estimated-county-level-prevalence-of-selected-underlying-medical-conditions-associated-with-increased-risk-for-severe-covid-19-illness-united-states-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimated County-Level Prevalence of Selected Underlying Medical Conditions Associated with Increased Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness \u2014 United States, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Based on data from the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2018<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0System<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">BRFSS<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0survey<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the median county prevalence of any of five underlying medical conditions (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and obesity)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are associated with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">increase<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">risk for severe COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0disease<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was 47%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">across\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3,142 U.S. counties.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While the total number of those with co-morbidities\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">follow<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s the overall\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">population\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">distribution,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prevalence\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of co-morbidities is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">higher in the southeastern United States and in more rural counties.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">County-level maps are provided to support<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0local decision-makers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">identif<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ying<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0areas at higher risk for severe COVID-19 illness<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Razzaghi et al. (July 24, 2020). Estimated County-Level Prevalence of Selected Underlying Medical Conditions Associated with Increased Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness \u2014 United States, 2018. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report\u00a02020;69:945\u2013950.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6929a1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6929a1<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on data from the\u00a02018\u00a0Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance\u00a0System\u00a0(BRFSS)\u00a0survey,\u00a0the median county prevalence of any of five underlying medical conditions (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and obesity)\u00a0that\u00a0are associated with\u00a0increased\u00a0risk for severe COVID-19\u00a0disease\u00a0was 47%\u00a0across\u00a03,142 U.S. counties.\u00a0While the total number of those with co-morbidities\u00a0follows the overall\u00a0population\u00a0distribution,\u00a0the\u00a0prevalence\u00a0of co-morbidities is\u00a0higher in the southeastern United States and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/23\/estimated-county-level-prevalence-of-selected-underlying-medical-conditions-associated-with-increased-risk-for-severe-covid-19-illness-united-states-2018\/\">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-8449","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\/8449","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=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}