Wu (2020)
Risk Factors Associated With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Death in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia in Wuhan, China
https://doi.org10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.0994
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32167524
Comorbidities
Diabetes (Present vs. Not present)
COVID-19 (severe/fatal)
Hazard ratio: 2.340 (1.350-4.050) Univariate analysis. Calculated odds ratio based on data reported in the article.

China

Retrospective cohort study

Medical records

201

Patients aged 21 to 83 years with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia hospitalized at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China.

All patients were diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia according to World Health Organization interim guidance. According tohospitaldata, patients were admitted from December 25, 2019, to January 26, 2020.

0


COVID-19 (severe/fatal)

84

Development of ARDS and death among those with ARDS. World Health Organization interim guidance was used to define ARDS.


Comorbidities

Diabetes

Not present

16

179

Present

6

22


Hazard ratio

2.340 (1.350-4.050)

No

Yes

No

Bivariate Cox proportional hazard ratio (HR) models were used to determine HRs and 95% CIs between individual factors on the development of ARDS or progression from ARDS to death.


none

Average

No