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Risk factors for COVID-19-related in-hospital mortality in a high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence setting in South Africa: a cohort study.

Waasila Jassat, +1556 more
- 01 Sep 2021 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 9
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In this article, the authors investigated the factors associated with in-hospital mortality among patients with COVID-19, including age, sex, race or ethnicity, and comorbidities (hypertension, diabetes, chronic cardiac disease, chronic pulmonary disease and asthma, chronic renal disease, malignancy in the past 5 years, HIV, and past and current tuberculosis).
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Age-dependent effects in the transmission and control of COVID-19 epidemics.

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