Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021

URL

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/pdf/21_0123.pdf

Authors

Lyudmyla Kompaniyets, Audrey F. Pennington, Alyson B. Goodman, Hannah G. Rosenblum, Brook Belay, Jean Y. Ko, Jennifer R. Chevinsky, Lyna Z. Schieber, April D. Summers, Amy M. Lavery, Leigh Ellyn Preston, Melissa L. Danielson, Zhaohui Cui, Gonza Namulanda, Hussain Yusuf, William R. Mac Kenzie, Karen K. Wong, James Baggs, Tegan K. Boehmer,
and Adi V. Gundlapalli

Published Date

July 2021

Publication

Preventing Chronic Disease

Organization

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Key Excerpts

“Results: Among 4,899,447 hospitalized adults… 540,667 (11.0%) were patients with COVID-19, of whom 94.9% had at least 1 underlying medical condition. Essential hypertension (50.4%), disorders of lipid metabolism (49.4%), and obesity (33.0%) were the most common. The strongest risk factors for death were obesity (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 1.30; 95% CI, 1.27–1.33), anxiety and fear-related disorders (aRR = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.25–1.31), and diabetes with complication (aRR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.24–1.28), as well as the total number of conditions.”

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Topics

at risk populations,COVID-19,pre-existing conditions risk factor,health statistics,risk factors