Covid-19 epidemic in Sweden and cardiometabolic disease: using available data from Swedish registers. (Covid-19-epidemin i Sverige med fokus på kardiometabol sjukdom och sociodemografiska faktorer.)

Swedish registers with high national coverage allow for studying determinants of developing severe COVID-19 disease. We aim to predict who, in the population, will run the highest risk of being hospitalized, being in need of intensive care, or to die from COVID-19. We will use 3 separate datasets 1) all citizens of Sweden alive Feb 1, 2020, 2) all patients with diabetes + 5 matched population controls 3) men in the Swedish Registry of Conscripts (now aged up to 70 years, they represent the typical male patient in intensive care due to COVID-19).The independent effect and relative importance of age, sex, region, and a range of medical and sociodemographic factorsLong- and short-term effects on morbidity and mortality of surviving COVID-19 infectionAbsolute and risk in individuals with diabetes relative to population controls by type of diabetes, age, metabolic control, body weight, and complicationsAdolescent overweight, early cardiovascular disease (CVD) and risk of being hospitalized, requiring intensive care or die from COVID-19Through large, detailed and comprehensive data from Swedish registries we will be able to produce absolute and relative risk estimates at the top of a national outbreak of COVID-19 that will identify groups that are susceptible to severe disease and to help form policies. Our project will provide unique possibilities to establish important societal and individual factors determining the incidence, clinical course, and case fatality of COVID-19. Kardiologi; Endokrinologi och diabetes; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi