TY - JOUR AU - Du, Houwei AU - Pan, Xiaobin AU - Liu, Nan AU - Chen, Junnian AU - Chen, Xiaoling AU - Werring, David J. AU - Ambler, Gareth AU - Li, Xiaoqing AU - Chen, Ronghua AU - Zhang, Yixian AU - Huang, Huayao AU - Lin, Feifei AU - Xia, Pincang AU - Chen, Chao AU - Zheng, Zhenyang AU - Wu, Sangru AU - Lei, Hanhan AU - Gao, Lei AU - Huang, Mingxu AU - Lin, Kexu AU - Xu, Xiaoping AU - Luo, Yukun AU - Zhao, Ziwen AU - Li, Chen AU - Lin, Hailong AU - Lin, Yu AU - Huang, Zhenghui AU - Cao, Rongxiang AU - Chen, Limin AU - On behalf of the Fujian Medical Team Support Wuhan for COVID-19 PY - 2020 DA - 2020/09/21 TI - The effect of vascular risk factor burden on the severity of COVID-19 illness, a retrospective cohort study JO - Respiratory Research SP - 241 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Patients with cardiovascular comorbidities are at high risk of poor outcome from COVID-19. However, how the burden (number) of vascular risk factors influences the risk of severe COVID-19 disease remains unresolved. Our aim was to investigate the association of severe COVID-19 illness with vascular risk factor burden. SN - 1465-993X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01510-0 DO - 10.1186/s12931-020-01510-0 ID - Du2020 ER -