Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

Background: Mortality from COVID-19 shows a strong relationship with age and pre-existing medical conditions, as does mortality from other causes. We aimed to investigate how specific factors are differentially associated with COVID-19 mortality as compared to mortality from causes other than COVID-...

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Main Authors: Krishnan Bhaskaran, Sebastian Bacon, Stephen JW Evans, Chris J Bates, Christopher T Rentsch, Brian MacKenna, Laurie Tomlinson, Alex J Walker, Anna Schultze, Caroline E Morton, Daniel Grint, Amir Mehrkar, Rosalind M Eggo, Peter Inglesby, Ian J Douglas, Helen I McDonald, Jonathan Cockburn, Elizabeth J Williamson, David Evans, Helen J Curtis, William J Hulme, John Parry, Frank Hester, Sam Harper, David Spiegelhalter, Liam Smeeth, Ben Goldacre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-07-01
Series:The Lancet Regional Health. Europe
Subjects:
COVID-19
Mortality
Epidemiology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776221000867

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