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COVID-19 and associations with frailty and multimorbidity: a prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants
2020-06-11
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<h4>Background</h4> Frailty and multimorbidity have been suggested as risk factors for severe COVID-19 disease. <h4>Aims</h4> We investigated whether frailty and multimorbidity were associated with risk of hospitalisation with COVID-19 in the UK Biobank. <h4>Methods</h4> 502,640 participants aged 40-69 years at baseline (54-79 years at COVID-19 testing) were recruited across UK 2006-10. A modified assessment of fr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 66b6c63b-2335-53cb-a509-a76a16616873
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- 10.1101/2020.06.09.20126292
