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cord-278313-gadui4r7	Zakeri, R.	A case-control and cohort study to determine the relationship between ethnic background and severe COVID-19	2020-07-10		.txt	text/plain	5153	316	49	6 A UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) analysis suggested that individuals of Black and South Asian descent had a higher likelihood of death than White people after adjustment for demographic and socioeconomic factors, but was limited by lack of information on comorbidities and the use of historic (2011) data for the reference population. In analyses adjusting for the matching variables (age and sex) only, Black and Mixed/Other ethnicity were associated with higher odds of admission compared to White ethnicity ( is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. These data confirmed a disproportionately higher number of minority ethnic group patients among those admitted for COVID-19 compared with emergency respiratory infection admissions in the preceding year. First, we employ a case-population study to identify an approximately 3-fold higher risk of hospital admission with COVID-19 for Black and Mixed ethnicity groups (but not Asians) compared to White among inner city residents.	./cache/cord-278313-gadui4r7.txt	./txt/cord-278313-gadui4r7.txt