Chronic diseases associated with increased likelihood of hospitalization and mortality in 68,913 COVID-19 confirmed cases in Spain: A population-based cohort study

• Antonio Gimeno-Miguel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AGM and KBB have contributed equally to this work as first co-authors. APT and LAGF have contributed equally to this work as joint senior authors.

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5440-1710

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• Kevin Bliek-Bueno ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kbliek@salud.aragon.es

  ¶‡ AGM and KBB have contributed equally to this work as first co-authors. APT and LAGF have contributed equally to this work as joint senior authors.

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Teaching Unit, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4812-4657

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• Beatriz Poblador-Plou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain

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• Jonás Carmona-Pírez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, Delicias-Sur Primary Care Health Centre, Aragon Health Service (SALUD), Zaragoza, Spain

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• Antonio Poncel-Falcó,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, Aragon Health Service (SALUD), Zaragoza, Spain

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• Francisca González-Rubio,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, Delicias-Sur Primary Care Health Centre, Aragon Health Service (SALUD), Zaragoza, Spain, Drug Utilization Work Group, Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC), Barcelona, Spain

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• Ignatios Ioakeim-Skoufa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Drug Utilization Work Group, Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC), Barcelona, Spain, WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology, Department of Drug Statistics, Division of Health Data and Digitalisation, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6518-749X

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• Victoria Pico-Soler,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, Torrero-La Paz Primary Care Health Centre, Aragon Health Service (SALUD), Zaragoza, Spain

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• Mercedes Aza-Pascual-Salcedo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, Primary Care Pharmacy Service Zaragoza III, Aragon Health Service (SALUD), Zaragoza, Spain

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• Alexandra Prados-Torres ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AGM and KBB have contributed equally to this work as first co-authors. APT and LAGF have contributed equally to this work as joint senior authors.

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain

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• Luis Andrés Gimeno-Feliu ,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AGM and KBB have contributed equally to this work as first co-authors. APT and LAGF have contributed equally to this work as joint senior authors.

  Affiliations EpiChron Research Group, Aragon Health Sciences Institute (IACS), IIS Aragón, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, Health Services Research on Chronic Patients Network (REDISSEC), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, San Pablo Primary Care Health Centre, Aragon Health Service (SALUD), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2928-6623

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• on behalf of the PRECOVID Group

  ¶Membership of the PRECOVID group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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