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cord-261559-efbjyuen	Ravi, Krithi	Ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality: are comorbidities to blame?	2020-06-19		.txt	text/plain	499	31	54	After adjusting for sex, age, deprivation, and region, people from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background had a higher risk of death from COVID-19 than White British people. This initially appears to support PHE's conclusion that differences in the distribution of comorbidities may account for the increased COVID-19 mortality of BAME patients. However, in CO-CIN's analysis 2 of more than 14 000 patients with COVID-19 admitted to UK hospitals, BAME patients were more likely to have diabetes, but less likely to have other comorbidities such as chronic cardiac, pulmonary, kidney, and neuro logical disease, malignancy, and dementia. As patients from a White ethnic background were more likely to be older and have comorbidities associated with a higher risk of dying from COVID-19, it is very concerning that the case fatality at 30 days after hospital admission for COVID-19 appears to be the same in Black and White patients.	./cache/cord-261559-efbjyuen.txt	./txt/cord-261559-efbjyuen.txt