Is older age associated with COVID-19 mortality in the absence of other risk factors? General population cohort study of 470,034 participants - Concepedia

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Is older age associated with COVID-19 mortality in the absence of other risk factors? General population cohort study of 470,034 participants

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2020

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Frederick K. Ho, Fanny Petermann‐Rocha, Stuart R. Gray, Bhautesh Jani, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Hamish Foster, Claire E. Hastie, Daniel Mackay, Jason M. R. Gill,

Abstract

Higher COVID-19 mortality among older adults was partially explained by other risk factors. 'Healthy' older adults were at much lower risk. Nonetheless, older age was an independent risk factor for COVID-19 mortality.

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