The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Long-Term Care Facilities Worldwide: An Overview on International Issues

Table 1

Risk factors for severe disease and death in COVID-19 patients—a summary from multiple recent studies.

		Study
Risk factors for severe disease and death		Zheng et al. [19]	Li et al. [15]	Zhang et al. [16]	Wang et al. [21]	Bianchetti et al. [23]	Docherty et al. [20]
	Age over 65 years	, 95% CI (3.98-9.22)	, 95% CI (1.5-3.5)	, 95% CI (3.018-7.606)
	Male gender	, 95% CI (1.41-2.18)		, 95% CI (0.355-0.761)
	Smoking	, 95% CI (398-9.22)
	Diabetes	, 95% CI (2.68-5.03)			, 95% CI (1.67-3.66)
	Hypertension	, 95% CI (1.60-4.64)	, 95% CI (1.3-3.2)		, 95% CI (1.69-3.10)
	Cardiovascular disease	, 95% CI (3.25-8.29)		, 95% CI (1.503-3.948)	, 95% CI (1.73-4.96)		(1.08-1.24)
	Respiratory disease	, 95% CI (2.51-10.57)			, 95% CI (2.49-14.29)		(1.09-1.27)
	Cerebrovascular disease				, 95% CI (1.64-9.22)		(1.06-1.29)
	Dementia					, 95% CI (1.09-3.13)	(1.28-1.52)
	Malignancy						(1.02-1.24)

Only patients over 60 years old were taken into consideration. The HR values are calculated for the hazard representing death. All the values presented in the table had statistical significance ( value <0.05).