The Study
ISARIC-COVID-19 dataset: A Prospective, Standardized, Global Dataset of Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19
This study is like a giant notebook where doctors from all over the world wrote down what symptoms patients had, what other health problems they had, and what happened to them in the hospital. It tells us what usually happens, but it doesn't prove that one thing (like diabetes) made COVID worse—just that they often happened together.
Analysis score
Maximum 44 for a cross-sectional study.
Where the score came from
Doctors around the world recorded what happened to people who got very sick with COVID and had to go to the hospital — like what symptoms they had, what other health problems they had, and if they survived.
Where does this study sit?
Reviews of RCTs (Meta-analyses)
Max 100Randomized Trials
Max 90Reviews of Cohort Studies
Max 85Cohort Studies
Max 72Reviews of Case-Control Studies
Max 63Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional & Case Series
Max 50Expert Opinion
Max 544 / 100
Quality score
Snapshots of a population at a single point in time, or descriptions of small groups. Can identify correlations and prevalence, but cannot determine cause and effect.
Key takeaways
Summary
Based on the study abstract and findings.
- 1Yes — these numbers show that older adults with conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes were much more likely to get very sick or die from COVID, and most severe cases involved breathing problems.
- 2Out of every 100 hospitalized patients, 24 died; 31 had high blood pressure, 30 had diabetes, 20 needed intensive care, and 16 got viral pneumonia.
Score breakdown, methodology, conflicts of interest, evidence analysis & raw study data
Publication
Journal
Scientific Data
Year
2022
Authors
Ali Sheryl Ann Nurul Najmee Ryuzo Laurent Lara Kamal A Abbas Abdukahil Abdulkadir Abe Abel Absil Jabal Za, A. Abbas, S. Abdukahil, Nurul Najmee Abdulkadir, R. Abe, L. Abel, L. Absil, K. Jabal, H. Zayyad, S. Acharya, Andrew Acker, Shingo Adachi, E. Adam, Enrico Adriano, Diana Adrião, Saleh Al Ageel, Shakeel Ahmed, M. Aiello, Kate Ainscough, Eka Airlangga, T. Aisa, A. A. Hssain, Younes Ait Tamlihat, T. Akimoto, Ernita Akmal, E. A. Qasim, Tala Al-Dabbous, A. Al-Fares, Razi Alalqam, Angela Alberti, Senthilkumar Alegesan, Cynthia Alegre, Marta Alessi, B. Alex, K. Alexandre, H. Alfoudri, Adam Ali, Imran Ali, N. Shah, N. A. Sheikh, Kazali Enagnon Alidjnou, Jeffrey Aliudin, Qabas Alkhafajee, C. Allavena, N. Allou, A. Altaf, João Alves, J. Alves, Rita Alves, M. Amaral, Nur Amira, H. Ammerlaan, P. Ampaw, Roberto Andini, C. Andrejak, A. Angheben, F. Angoulvant, S. Ansart, Sivanesen Anthonidass, M. Antonelli, C. A. A. de Brito, Kazi Rubayet Anwar, Ardiyan Apriyana, Y. Arabi, I. Aragao, F. Arancibia, Carolline Araujo, A. Arcadipane, P. Archambault, Lukas Arenz, J. Arlet, C. Arnold-Day, Ana Aroca, Lovkesh Arora, Rakesh C. Arora, Elise Artaud-Macari, Diptesh Aryal, Motohiro Asaki, Á. Asensio, Elizabeth A Ashley, Muhammad Aleem Ashraf, Nadim Asif, M. Asim, J. Assié, A. Asyraf, Anika Atique, A. U. L. Attanyake, J. Auchabie, H. Aumaître, A. Auvet, Eyvind W. Axelsen, Laurène Azemar, Cécile Azoulay, Benjamin Bach, D. Bachelet, C. Badr, R. Bævre-Jensen, Nadia Baig, J. Baillie, J. Baird, Erica Bak, A. Bakakos, Nazreen Abu Bakar, A. Bal, Mohanaprasanth Balakrishnan, Valeria Balan, F. Bani-Sadr, R. Barbalho, N. Barbosa, W. Barclay, Saef Umar Barnett, Michaela Barnikel, H. Barrasa, A. Barrelet, Cleide Barrigoto, M. Bartoli, C. Bartone, J. Baruch, Mustehan Bashir, Romain Basmaci, Muhammad Fadhli Hassin Basri, D. Battaglini, Jules Bauer, D. Rincón, D. B. Dow, A. Beane, A. Bedossa, Ker Hong Bee, Husna Begum, Sylvie Behilill, K. Beiruti, A. Beishuizen, Aleksandr Beljantsev, D. Bellemare, A. Beltrame, B. A. Beltrão, Marine Beluze, Nicolas Benech, Lionel Eric Benjiman, Dehbia Benkerrou, Suzanne M. Bennett, L. Bento, J. Berdal, Delphine Bergeaud, Hazel Bergin, J. Sobrino, G. Bertoli, L. Bertolino, S. Bessis, A. Betz, Sybille Bevilcaqua, Karine Bézulier, A. Bhatt, K. Bhavsar, I. Bianchi, C. Bianco, Farah Nadiah Bidin, Moirangthem Bikram Singh, Felwa bin Humaid, Mohd Nazlin Bin Kamarudin, F. Bissuel, P. Biston, L. Bitker, Jonathan Y. Bitton, P. Blanco-Schweizer, C. Blier, F. Bloos, M. Blot, L. Blumberg, Filomena Boccia, L. Bodénes, A. Bogaarts, D. Bogaert, Anne‐Hélène Boivin, P. Bolze, F. Bompart, Patrizia Bonelli, Aurelius Bonfasius, Diogo Borges, R. Borie, H. Bosse, E. Botelho-Nevers, L. Bouadma, O. Bouchaud, S. Bouchez, Dounia Bouhmani, D. Bouhour, K. Bouiller, L. Bouillet, Camile Bouisse, Thipsavanh Bounphiengsy, Latsaniphone Bountthasavong, A. Boureau, J. Bourke, M. Bouscambert, A. Bousquet, J. Bouziotis, Bianca Boxma, M. Boyer-Besseyre, Maria Boylan, F. Bozza, Axelle Braconnier, Cynthia Braga, T. Brandenburger, F. Monteiro, L. Brazzi, D. Breen, P. Breen, K. Brickell, A. Browne, Shaunagh Browne, Nicolas Brozzi, S. H. Brunvoll, M. Brusse-Keizer, Nina Buchtele, Christian Buesaquillo, P. Bugaeva, M. Buisson, D. Buonsenso, Erlina Burhan, A. Burrell, Ingrid G. Bustos, Denisa Butnaru, A. Cabié, S. Cabral, Eder Caceres, C. Cadoz, Mia Callahan, Kate Calligy, J. Calvache, C. Caminiti, J. Camões, Valentine Campana, Paul Campbell, J. Campisi, Cecilia Canepa, M. Cantero, Pauline Caraux-Paz, S. Cárcel, C. Cardellino, Filipa Cardoso, F. Cardoso, N. Cardoso, Sofia Cardoso, S. Carelli, Francesca Carlacci, Nicolas Carlier, T. Carmoi, Gayle Carney, Inês Carqueja, Marie‐Christine Carret, F. Carrier, I. Carroll, G. Carson, L. Carvalho, Maire-Laure Casanova, Mariana Cascão, Siobhan Casey, J. Casimiro, Bailey Cassandra, Silvia Castañeda, N. Castanheira, Guylaine Castor‐Alexandre, Henry Castrillón, Ivo Castro, A. Catarino, F. Catherine, P. Cattaneo, R. Cavalin, G. Cavalli, Alexandros Cavayas, A. Ceccato, Minerva Cervantes-Gonzalez, A. Chair, Catherine Chakveatze, Adrienne Chan, M. Chand, C. Auger, J. Chapplain, J. Chas, A. Chatterjee, M. Chaudry, J. Iñiguez, Anjellica Chen, Yih-Sharng Chen, M. Cheng, A. Chéret, A. Chetta, Thibault Chiarabini, Julian Chica, S. Chidambaram, Leong Chin Tho, C. Chirouze, D. Chiumello, Hwa Jin Cho, Sung-Min Cho, B. Cholley, Danoy Chommanam, Marie‐Charlotte Chopin, T. S. Chow, Y. Chow, Nathaniel Christy, H. J. Chua, Jonathan Chua, J. Cidade, J. M. Herreros, B. Citarella, Anna Ciullo, E. Clarke, J. Clarke, R. C. Granado, S. Clohisey, P. Cobb, Cassidy Codan, Caitriona Cody, A. Coelho, Megan Coles, G. Colin, Michael Collins, S. Colombo, Pamela Combs, M. Connor, A. Conrad, Sofía Contreras, E. Conway, Graham S. Cooke, M. Copland, H. Cordel, A. Corley, Sabine Cornelis, A. Cornet, Arianne Joy Corpuz, A. Cortegiani, Grégory Corvaisier, Emma Costigan, C. Couffignal, S. Couffin-cadiergues, R. Courtois, S. Cousse, Rachel Cregan, C. D’Orleans, Sabine Croonen, Gloria Crowl, J. Crump, Claudina Cruz, Juan Luis Cruz Berm, J. Rojo, M. Csete, Alberto Cucino, Ailbhe Cullen, M. Cummings, G. Curley, G. Curley, E. Curlier, Colleen M. Curran, P. Custodio, F. D’Amico, F. D’Aragon, E. D’Ortenzio, A. da Silva Filipe, Charléne Da Silveira, A. Dabaliz, A. Dagens, J. Dahl, D. Dahly, H. Dalton, J. Dalton, S. Daly, N. Daneman, Corinne Daniel, E. Dankwa, Jorge Dantas, M. D. de Boer, Gillian de Loughry, D. de Mendoza, É. de Montmollin, R. F. de Oliveira França, A. Oliveira, Rosanna De Rosa, C. De Rose, T. D. de Silva, P. D. de Vries, Jillian Deacon, David Dean, A. Debard, B. DeBenedictis, M. Debray, N. DeCastro, W. Dechert, Lauren Deconninck, Romain Decours, Eve Defous, I. Delacroix, Eric Delaveuve, K. Delavigne, N. Delfos, Ionna Deligiannis, A. Dell’Amore, C. Delmas, P. Delobel, C. Delsing, É. Demonchy, Emmanuelle Denis, D. Deplanque, P. Depuydt, M. Desai, D. Descamps, M. Desvallées, S. Dewayanti, P. Dhanger, A. Diallo, S. Diamantis, André Dias, A. Dias, J. J. Díaz, Priscila Diaz, R. Díaz, K. Didier, J. Diehl, W. Dieperink, J. Dimet, V. Dinot, Fara Diop, A. Diouf, Yael Dishon, F. Djossou, A. Docherty, Helen Doherty, A. Dondorp, Andy Dong, C. Donnelly, Maria Donnelly, C. Donohue, S. Donohue, Yoann Donohue, P. Doran, C. Dorival, Phouvieng Douangdala, J. J. Douglas, R. Douma, N. Dournon, Triona Downer, J. Downey, M. Downing, Tom M. Drake, Aoife Driscoll, A. Dror, M. Dryden, C. Fonseca, V. Dubée, F. Dubos, A. Dubot-Pérès, Alexandre Ducancelle, Toni Duculan, S. Dudman, A. Duggal, P. Dunand, J. Dunning, M. Duplaix, E. Durante-Mangoni, Lucia Durham, B. Dussol, Juliette Duthoit, X. Duval, A. M. Dyrhol-Riise, S. Ean, Marco Echeverria-Villalobos, G. Economopoulos, M. Edelstein, Siobhán Egan, Linn Margrete Eggesbø, Carla Eira, M. El Sanharawi, S. Elapavaluru, B. Elharrar, J. Ellerbroek, M. Ellingjord-Dale, P. Eloy, Tarek B. Elshazly, Iqbal R F Elyazar, I. Enderle, Tomoyuki Endo, C. Eng, I. Engelmann, V. Enouf, O. Epaulard, M. Escher, M. Esperatti, H. Esperou, M. Esposito-farese, J. Estêvão, M. Etienne, Nadia Ettalhaoui, Anna Greti Everding, Mirjam Evers, I. Fabre, M. Fabre, Amna Faheem, A. Fahy, C. Fairfield
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Claims (6)
Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, 29.6% have diabetes mellitus, and those with diabetes have a higher rate of death during hospitalization.
Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, 23.5% died during their hospital stay, based on data from more than 700,000 patients in 60 countries.
Among people hospitalized with COVID-19, 19.8% experience shortness of breath and 23.7% experience cough at the time of admission, making these the two most frequently reported symptoms.
Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, those with hypertension have a higher risk of dying in the hospital compared to those without hypertension.
About 1 in 5 people hospitalized with COVID-19 need intensive care because their condition worsens to the point of severe respiratory or multiorgan failure.
Among hospitalized patients with COVID-19, viral pneumonia affects 16.2% and acute respiratory distress syndrome affects 6.6%. Lung injury is the main cause of severe illness in these patients.
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