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cord-355314-2gb9pzy0	Kalyanaraman Marcello, R.	Characteristics and Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients in New York City's Public Hospital System	2020-06-01		.txt	text/plain	4408	256	56	Background New York City (NYC) has borne the greatest burden of COVID-19 in the United States, but information about characteristics and outcomes of racially/ethnically diverse individuals tested and hospitalized for COVID-19 remains limited. Male sex, older age, diabetes, cardiac history, and chronic kidney disease were significantly associated with testing positive, hospitalization, and death. We describe here the results of our analysis of the demographic and clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients tested for COVID-19 and admitted to New York City's public hospital system, the largest case series in NYC and the United States reported to date. Comorbidities were defined as the presence or absence of the following chronic conditions recorded as billing diagnoses or "active" in a patient's problem list in the EHR: diabetes, hypertension (HTN), arrhythmia, cardiovascular disease (CVD), congestive heart failure (CHF), asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), liver disease, cancer, HIV, and a flag for having one or more specified chronic disease (diabetes, All rights reserved.	./cache/cord-355314-2gb9pzy0.txt	./txt/cord-355314-2gb9pzy0.txt