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cord-288997-cb7ndzqt	Dey, Thonmoy Josh	Ethnicity and COVID-19 - A commentary on “World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)” (Int J Surg 2020;76:71-6)	2020-09-11		.txt	text/plain	1521	85	58	title: Ethnicity and COVID-19 A commentary on "World Health Organization declares global emergency: A review of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)" (Int J Surg 2020;76:71-6) For this commentary, we focus on the role of comorbidity, deprivation and occupation in the disproportionately high infection and mortality rates amongst Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals. This review, undertaken by Public Health England (PHE), showed that when accounting for age, sex, deprivation, demographics and ethnicity, people of Bangladeshi ethnicity had around twice the risk of death compared to people of White British ethnicity. Comorbidity has been identified as an important risk factor for adverse outcomes in patients with COVID-19 [6] [7] , and several cardiometabolic conditions are over-represented in some of the minority ethnic groups discussed above. For instance, data from the Health Improvement Network database of over 400,000 patients in London showed that people of Asian and Black ethnic groups had a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes compared to the White British population [8] .	./cache/cord-288997-cb7ndzqt.txt	./txt/cord-288997-cb7ndzqt.txt