Male Sex, Severe Obesity, Older Age, and Chronic Kidney Disease Are Associated With COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in New York City

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
² Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, NYU Langone School of Medicine, New York, NY.
³ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Electronic address: Emanuela.taioli@mountsinai.org.

Joseph L Rapp et al. Chest. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;159(1):112-115.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.08.2065. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

¹ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
² Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, NYU Langone School of Medicine, New York, NY.
³ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Electronic address: Emanuela.taioli@mountsinai.org.

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