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. 2020 Dec;17(12):1645-1648.
doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202006-613RL.

Asthma in COVID-19 Hospitalizations: An Overestimated Risk Factor?

Richard Broadhurst  1 , Ryan Peterson  2 , Juan P Wisnivesky  3 , Alex Federman  3 , Shanta M Zimmer  2 , Sunita Sharma  2 , Michael Wechsler  2   4 , Fernando Holguin  1
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Asthma in COVID-19 Hospitalizations: An Overestimated Risk Factor?

Richard Broadhurst et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 Dec.
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Figure 1.
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) diagram detailing focused review of the literature and excluded studies. The initial number of studies identified after focused review was 11. An additional four studies were added after initial review.
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Comparing the prevalence (Prev.) of asthma in a series of COVID-19 studies compared with population-level Prev. The orange line corresponds to the 4-year average U.S. asthma Prev. among those hospitalized with flu (CDC FluView Data) (7). For a full study list, please see the References. *Overall (or “pooled”) Prev. (6.8%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.7–10.7%) and the associated CI assume random study-level effects. BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; CDC = U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019; flu = influenza; MMWR = Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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