1. Profile of COVID-19 in Brazil—risk factors and socioeconomic vulnerability associated with disease outcome: retrospective analysis of population-based registers
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Felipe A C Pereira, Fábio M H S Filho, Arthur R de Azevedo, Guilherme L de Oliveira, Renzo Flores-Ortiz, Luis Iván O Valencia, Moreno S Rodrigues, Pablo Ivan P Ramos, Nívea B da Silva, and Juliane Fonseca de Oliveira
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Medicine (General) ,R5-920 ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Objectives To classify the most up-to-date factors associated with COVID-19 disease outcomes in Brazil.Design Retrospective study.Setting Nationwide Brazilian COVID-19 healthcare registers.Participants We used healthcare data of individuals diagnosed with mild/moderate (n=70 056 602) or severe (n=2801 380) COVID-19 disease in Brazil between 26 February 2020 and 15 November 2021.Main outcome measures Risk of hospitalisation and mortality affected by demographic, clinical and socioeconomic variables were estimated. The impacts of socioeconomic inequalities on vaccination rates, cases and deaths were also evaluated.Results 15.6 million SARS-CoV-2 infection cases and 584 761 COVID-19-related deaths occurred in Brazil between 26 February 2020 and 15 November 2021. Overall, men presented a higher odds of death than women (OR=1.14, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.15), but postpartum patients admitted to hospital wards were at increased odds of dying (OR=1.23, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.34) compared with individuals without reported comorbidities. Death in younger age groups was notably higher in most deprived municipalities and also among individuals
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- 2022
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