Ethnicity and risk of death in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 infection in the UK: an observational cohort study in an urban catchment area

Background Studies suggest that certain black and Asian minority ethnic groups experience poorer outcomes from COVID-19, but these studies have not provided insight into potential reasons for this. We hypothesised that outcomes would be poorer for those of South Asian ethnicity hospitalised from a c...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Sapey, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Paul Cockwell, Simon Ball, Alastair K Denniston, Peter Nightingale, David McNulty, Domenico Pagano, Felicity Evison, Tanya Pankhurst, Katharine Reeves, Suzy Gallier, Peter Diggle, M Ahmed, Jamie Coleman, Rifat Rashid, Chris Mainey, Hannah Crothers, Lylah Irshad, Maxim Harris, Theodore Nabav, A Kolesnyk, A Liaqat, Chirag Dave, Khaled ElFandi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Online Access:https://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/7/1/e000644.full