2381/12374963.v2 M Pareek M Pareek MN Bangash MN Bangash N Pareek N Pareek D Pan D Pan S Sze S Sze JS Minhas JS Minhas W Hanif W Hanif K Khunti K Khunti Ethnicity and COVID-19: an urgent public health research priority University of Leicester 2020 Betacoronavirus Coronavirus Infections Ethnic Groups Health Behavior Health Services Accessibility Humans Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral Public Health Research Social Behavior 2020-05-27 15:39:55 Journal contribution https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Ethnicity_and_COVID-19_an_urgent_public_health_research_priority/12374963 <div>[First paragraph] As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues advancing globally, reporting of clinical outcomes and risk factors for intensive care unit admission and mortality are emerging. Early Chinese and Italian reports associated increasing age, male sex, smoking, and cardiometabolic comorbidity with adverse outcomes.<div><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30922-3/fulltext#bib1">1</a></div> Striking differences between Chinese and Italian mortality indicate ethnicity might affect disease outcome, but there is little to no data to support or refute this.</div><div><br></div>