Population risk factors for severe disease and mortality in COVID-19: A global systematic review and meta-analysis

A Booth, AB Reed, S Ponzo, A Yassaee, M Aral… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… of risk stratification, this investigation focused on risk factors that were easily obtainable.
As such, we did not consider haematological risk factors within our review. These factors are …

Global and regional prevalence, burden, and risk factors for carotid atherosclerosis: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and modelling study

P Song, Z Fang, H Wang, Y Cai, K Rahimi… - The Lancet Global …, 2020 - thelancet.com
… Third, we did a meta-analysis of risk factors for increased … risk factors for increased carotid
intima-media thickness, carotid plaque, and carotid stenosis. We only included risk factors that …

Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

M Zhou, H Wang, X Zeng, P Yin, J Zhu, W Chen, X Li… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
… matter pollution were among the leading four risk factors contributing to deaths and DALYs.
All … -standardised SEVs among the top ten leading risk factors was in high body-mass index (…

Risk factors of critical & mortal COVID-19 cases: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis

Z Zheng, F Peng, B Xu, J Zhao, H Liu, J Peng, Q Li… - Journal of infection, 2020 - Elsevier
… We aimed to find risk factors for the progression of COVID-19 to help reducing the risk of …
This study analyzed the risk factors for progression to critical illness or death in COVID-19 …

A guide to systematic review and meta-analysis of prognostic factor studies

RD Riley, KGM Moons, KIE Snell, J Ensor, L Hooft… - bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
… different from (systematic reviews of) aetiological studies, in which the focus is on estimating
the association of a certain causal risk factor after adjustment for other risk factors. In such …

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

CJL Murray, AY Aravkin, P Zheng, C Abbafati… - The lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
… 87 risk factors and combinations of risk factors, at the global level, regionally, and for 204
countries and territories. GBD uses a hierarchical list of risk factors so that specific risk factors (…

Mortality-related risk factors of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 42 studies and 423,117 patients

ZG Dessie, T Zewotir - BMC infectious diseases, 2021 - Springer
… The results of our meta-analysis also showed that men seems to be a risk factor for
COVID-19 mortality. Sex differences in both the adaptive and innate immune system have been …

Epidemiology of COVID‐19: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of clinical characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes

J Li, DQ Huang, B Zou, H Yang, WZ Hui… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… These factors are important for health policy, … systematic review and meta-analysis aims
was to elucidate regional variations in baseline clinical characteristics, presentation, and factors

COVID-19 in health-care workers: a living systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, risk factors, clinical characteristics, and outcomes

SA Gómez-Ochoa, OH Franco, LZ Rojas… - American journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… With the present systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to identify, analyze, and
quantify the prevalence, risk factors, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of COVID-19 among …

Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

VL Feigin, BA Stark, CO Johnson, GA Roth… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on
their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are …