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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ETHNICITY AND SEVERE COVID-19 DISEASE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. (preprint)
medrxiv; 2020.
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| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2020.08.12.20157271
ABSTRACT
BackgroundMultiple reports suggest a disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on ethnic minorities. Whether ethnicity is an independent risk factor for severe Covid-19 disease is unclear. PurposeReview the association between ethnicity and poor outcomes including all-cause mortality, hospitalisation, critical care admission, respiratory and kidney failure. Data SourcesMEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register, WHO COVID-19 Global Research Database up to 15/06/2020, and preprint servers. No language restriction. Study SelectionAll studies providing ethnicity-aggregated data on the pre-specified outcomes, except case reports or interventional trials. Data ExtractionPairs of investigators independently extracted data, assessed risk of bias using Newcastle-Ottawa scale (NOS), and rated certainty of evidence following GRADE framework. Data SynthesisSeventy-two articles (59 cohort studies with 17,950,989 participants; 13 ecological studies; 54 US-based and 15 UK-based; 41 peer-reviewed) were included for systematic review and 45 for meta-analyses. Risk of bias was low, with median NOS 7 of 9 (interquartile range 6-8). In the unadjusted analyses, compared to white ethnicity, all-cause mortality risk was similar in Black (RR0.96 [95%CI 0.83-1.08]), Asian (RR0.99 [0.85-1.16]) but reduced in Hispanic ethnicity (RR0.69 [0.57-0.84]). Age and sex-adjusted-risks were significantly elevated for Black (HR1.38 [1.09-1.75]) and Asian (HR1.42 [1.15-1.75]), but not for Hispanic (RR1.14 [0.93-1.40]). Further adjusting for comorbidities attenuated these association to non-significance; Black (HR0.95 [0.72-1.25]); Asian (HR1.17 [0.84-1.63]); Hispanic (HR0.94 [0.63-1.44]). Similar results were observed for other outcomes. In subgroup analysis, there was a trend towards greater disparity in outcomes for UK ethnic minorities, especially hospitalisation risk. LimitationsPaucity of evidence on native ethnic groups, and studies outside the US and UK. ConclusionsCurrently available evidence cannot confirm ethnicity as an independent risk factor for severe Covid-19 illness, but indicates that disparity may be partially attributed to greater burden of comorbidities. RegistrationPROSPERO, CRD42020188421 Funding sourcenone
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