Abstract
We estimated that 45.4% of US adults are at increased risk for complications from coronavirus disease because of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, hypertension, or cancer. Rates increased by age, from 19.8% for persons 18-29 years of age to 80.7% for persons >80 years of age, and varied by state, race/ethnicity, health insurance status, and employment.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; United States; chronic conditions; complications; coronavirus disease; infection; population-based estimates; respiratory infections; risk factors; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.
Publication types
- Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
MeSH terms
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity*
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 Testing
- Cardiovascular Diseases / complications
- Cardiovascular Diseases / diagnosis
- Cardiovascular Diseases / epidemiology*
- Chronic Disease
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods
- Coronavirus Infections / complications
- Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
- Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
- Coronavirus Infections / transmission
- Diabetes Complications
- Diabetes Mellitus / diagnosis
- Diabetes Mellitus / epidemiology*
- Female
- Humans
- Incidence
- Lung Diseases / complications
- Lung Diseases / diagnosis
- Lung Diseases / epidemiology*
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Statistical*
- Neoplasms / complications
- Neoplasms / diagnosis
- Neoplasms / epidemiology*
- Pandemics*
- Pneumonia, Viral / complications
- Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
- Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
- Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
- Risk Factors
- SARS-CoV-2
- Severity of Illness Index
- United States / epidemiology