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cord-273275-f7rbn88x	Alkhatib, Ala L.	BMI is Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Intensive Care Unit Admission in African Americans	2020-08-04		.txt	text/plain	2006	115	47	This study aims to identify the risk factors for severe COVID‐19 disease in African American patients. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified risk factors for severe disease in COVID‐19, specifically in an African American population. ► Major health disparities have been identified in the COVID-19 epidemic within the United States, and this is one of the first studies to focus specifically on the risk factors within an African American population, a community that has been disproportionately impacted by this disease. In this study, we aim to describe the baseline characteristics of laboratoryconfirmed COVID-19-positive African American patients and determine the possible risk factors, including BMI, for the development of severe disease and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). In this retrospective observational cross-sectional study, we found that age, higher BMI, and obstructive lung disease were associated with severe COVID-19 in an African American population.	./cache/cord-273275-f7rbn88x.txt	./txt/cord-273275-f7rbn88x.txt