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. 2020 Oct;81(4):647-679.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.010. Epub 2020 May 11.

Age but not sex may explain the negative effect of arterial hypertension and diabetes on COVID-19 prognosis

Carlos J Pirola  1 , Silvia Sookoian  2
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Age but not sex may explain the negative effect of arterial hypertension and diabetes on COVID-19 prognosis

Carlos J Pirola et al. J Infect. 2020 Oct.
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Keywords: COVID-19; cardiovascular disease; diabetes; hypertension; prognosis.

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Meta-regression analysis between the difference in age (DifAGE) and male proportion between the critical/mortal and non-critical groups of COVID-19 patients and the effect of comorbidities on COVID-19 critical illness among the studies. Meta-regression was used to examine the impact of moderator variables (age and sex) on effect sizes using regression-based techniques. To determine the slope, we used meta-regression (methods of moments). Each circle represents a study according to the meta-analysis of Zheng et al..
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