Hospitalization and mortality among black patients and white patients with Covid-19

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 382, Issue 26, 2020, Pages 2534-2543

  Price Haywood, Eboni G ^a,b   Burton, Jeffrey ^a   Fort, Daniel ^a   Seoane, Leonardo ^b  

^a New Orleans   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LACTIC ACID; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BREATHING RATE; CAUCASIAN; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE BURDEN; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LOUISIANA; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLATELET COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ETHNOLOGY; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85087110389     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa2011686     Document Type: Article

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