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Elevated COVID19 mortality risk in Detroit area hospitals among patients from census tracts with extreme socioeconomic vulnerability

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العنوان: Elevated COVID19 mortality risk in Detroit area hospitals among patients from census tracts with extreme socioeconomic vulnerability
المؤلفون: Avnish Sandhu, Steven J. Korzeniewski, Jordan Polistico, Harshita Pinnamaneni, Sushmitha Nanja Reddy, Ahmed Oudeif, Jessica Meyers, Nikki Sidhu, Phillip Levy, Lobelia Samavati, M.Safwan Badr, Jack D. Sobel, Robert Sherwin, Teena Chopra
المصدر: EClinicalMedicine, Vol 34, Iss , Pp 100814- (2021)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine (General)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine (General), R5-920
الوصف: Background: the incidence of novel coronavirus disease (COVID19) is elevated in areas with heightened socioeconomic vulnerability. Early reports from US hospitals also implicated social disadvantage and chronic disease history as COVID19 mortality risk factors. However, the relationship between race and COVID19 mortality remains unclear. Methods: we examined in-hospital COVID19 mortality risk factors in a multi-hospital tertiary health care system that serves greater Detroit, Michigan, a predominantly African American city with high rates of poverty and chronic disease. Consecutive adult patients who presented to emergency departments and tested positive for COVID19 from 3/11/2020 through 4/18/2020 were included. Using log-binomial regression, we assessed the relationship between in-hospital mortality and residence in census tracts that were flagged for extreme socioeconomic vulnerability, patient-level demographics, and clinical comorbidities. Findings: a total of 1,015 adults tested positive for COVID19 during the study period; 80% identified as Black people, 52% were male and 53% were ≥ 65 years of age. The median body mass index was 30•4 and the median Charlson Comorbidity Index score was 4. Patients from census tracts that were flagged for vulnerability related to socioeconomic status had a higher mortality rate than their peers who resided in less vulnerable census tracts (β 0.26, standard error (SE) 0.11, degrees of freedom (df) 378, t-value (t) 2.27, exp(β) 1.29, p-value 0.02). Adjustment for age category, Black race, sex and/or the Charlson Comorbidity Index score category reduced the magnitude of association by less than 10% [exp(β) 1.29 vs. 1.21]. Black race [p = 0.38] and sex [p = 0.62] were not associated with mortality in this sample. Interpretation: people who lived in areas flagged for extreme socioeconomic vulnerability had elevated mortality risk in our predominantly African-American cohort of COVID19 patients who were able to seek hospital care during the so-called ‘first wave’ of the pandemic. By contrast, Black race was not associated with mortality in our sample.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2589-5370
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537021000948; https://doaj.org/toc/2589-5370
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100814
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/d62c3496e9194b318f311d5eb79d6b05
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.62c3496e9194b318f311d5eb79d6b05
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:25895370
DOI:10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100814