ArticleCommunications medicine2023
Prioritization of COVID-19 risk factors in July 2020 and February 2021 in the UK.
Article in Communications medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Identifying direct risk factors in UK Biobank via simultaneous Bayesian-frequentist model-averaged hypothesis testing using Doublethink.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundRisk for COVID-19 positivity and hospitalization due to diverse environmental and sociodemographic factors may change as the pandemic progresses.
methodsWe investigated the association of 360 exposures sampled before COVID-19 outcomes for participants in the UK Biobank, including 9268 and 38,837 non-overlapping participants, sampled at July 17, 2020 and February 2, 2021, respectively. The 360 exposures included clinical biomarkers (e.g., BMI), health indicators (e.g., doctor-diagnosed diabetes), and environmental/behavioral variables (e.g., air pollution) measured 10-14 years before the COVID-19 time periods.
resultsHere we show, for example, "participant having son and/or daughter in household" was associated with an increase in incidence from 20% to 32% (risk difference of 12%) between timepoints. Furthermore, we find age to be increasingly associated with COVID-19 positivity over time from Risk Ratio [RR] (per 10-year age increase) of 0.81 to 0.6 (hospitalization RR from 1.18 to 2.63, respectively).
conclusionsOur data-driven approach demonstrates that time of pandemic plays a role in identifying risk factors associated with positivity and hospitalization.
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