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cord-322776-jg8hqlu7	Raharja, Antony	Association Between Ethnicity and Severe COVID-19 Disease: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	2020-11-12		.txt	text/plain	4447	257	43	This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the association between ethnicity and poor outcomes (mortality, hospitalisation, ICU admission, advanced respiratory support and kidney failure) in patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2. A custom spreadsheet was developed and piloted by AR and AT prior to use for data extraction; this recorded study characteristics (name, date, publication status), aim, location, setting, participant characteristics including age, sex, ethnicity (White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, mixed or missing data), body mass index, smoking status, comorbidities (hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, asthma, COPD, coronary artery disease, heart failure, cancer) and whether the study collected any data on socioeconomic factors. Ten cohort studies, not included in meta-analysis, echoed similar findings, and did not support ethnicity as an independent risk factor for poor COVID-19 outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis could not confirm ethnicity as an independent risk factor for poor outcomes in COVID-19 patients.	./cache/cord-322776-jg8hqlu7.txt	./txt/cord-322776-jg8hqlu7.txt