Factors associated with deaths due to COVID-19 versus other causes: population-based cohort analysis of UK primary care data and linked national death registrations within the OpenSAFELY platform

• Main Authors: Krishnan Bhaskaran (Author), Sebastian Bacon (Author), Stephen JW Evans (Author), Chris J Bates (Author), Christopher T Rentsch (Author), Brian MacKenna (Author), Laurie Tomlinson (Author), Alex J Walker (Author), Anna Schultze (Author), Caroline E Morton (Author), Daniel Grint (Author), Amir Mehrkar (Author), Rosalind M Eggo (Author), Peter Inglesby (Author), Ian J Douglas (Author), Helen I McDonald (Author), Jonathan Cockburn (Author), Elizabeth J Williamson (Author), David Evans (Author), Helen J Curtis (Author), William J Hulme (Author), John Parry (Author), Frank Hester (Author), Sam Harper (Author), David Spiegelhalter (Author), Liam Smeeth (Author), Ben Goldacre (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Mortality from COVID-19 shows a strong relationship with age and pre-existing medical conditions, as does mortality from other causes. We aimed to investigate how specific factors are differentially associated with COVID-19 mortality as compared to mortality from causes other than COVID-...