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The effect of vascular risk factor burden on the severity of COVID-19 illness, a retrospective cohort study

Du, H; Pan, X; Liu, N; Chen, J; Chen, X; Werring, DJ; Ambler, G; ... Fujian Medical Team Support Wuhan for COVID-19, .; + view all (2020) The effect of vascular risk factor burden on the severity of COVID-19 illness, a retrospective cohort study. Respiratory Research , 21 (1) , Article 241. 10.1186/s12931-020-01510-0. Green open access

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BACKGROUND: Patients with cardiovascular comorbidities are at high risk of poor outcome from COVID-19. However, how the burden (number) of vascular risk factors influences the risk of severe COVID-19 disease remains unresolved. Our aim was to investigate the association of severe COVID-19 illness with vascular risk factor burden. METHODS: We included 164 (61.8 ± 13.6 years) patients with COVID-19 in this retrospective study. We compared the difference in clinical characteristics, laboratory findings and chest computed tomography (CT) findings between patients with severe and non-severe COVID-19 illness. We evaluated the association between the number of vascular risk factors and the development of severe COVID-19 disease, using a Cox regression model. RESULTS: Sixteen (9.8%) patients had no vascular risk factors; 38 (23.2%) had 1; 58 (35.4%) had 2; 34 (20.7%) had 3; and 18 (10.9%) had ≥4 risk factors. Twenty-nine patients (17.7%) experienced severe COVID-19 disease with a median (14 [7-27] days) duration between onset to developing severe COVID-19 disease, an event rate of 4.47 per 1000-patient days (95%CI 3.10-6.43). Kaplan-Meier curves showed a gradual increase in the risk of severe COVID-19 illness (log-rank P < 0.001) stratified by the number of vascular risk factors. After adjustment for age, sex, and comorbidities as potential confounders, vascular risk factor burden remained associated with an increasing risk of severe COVID-19 illness. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with increasing vascular risk factor burden have an increasing risk of severe COVID-19 disease, and this population might benefit from specific COVID-19 prevention (e.g., self-isolation) and early hospital treatment measures.

Type: Article
Title: The effect of vascular risk factor burden on the severity of COVID-19 illness, a retrospective cohort study
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/s12931-020-01510-0
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01510-0
Language: English
Additional information: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: Vascular risk factor, Coronavirus disease 2019, Prognosis
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110791
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