Published in Nature Communications:
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Summary article:
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Most important findings:
• Men had more than twice as high a risk of dying from COVID-19 than women.
• Unmarried men and women (including those never married, widows/widowers and the divorced) had a 1.5-2 times as high a risk of dying from COVID-19 as those who were married.
• Living in the Stockholm area was linked to a 4.5 times as high risk of dying from COVID-19 (for both men and women) compared with the rest of the country.
• Those born abroad from low- and middle-income countries in the Middle East and North Africa had twice as high a mortality from COVID-19 for women and 3 times as high for men compared with people born in Sweden.
• Those born abroad from low- and middle-income countries outside the Middle East and North Africa had a more than 1.5 times as high mortality from COVID-19.
Two speculations quoting from the Reddit/r/science comments for why ethnics might have been hit harder, relating to Vitamin D deficiency (which I believe also could help acnecels here):
"Gene variants found most often in northern Europeans protect against lung infections like Covid better than those found in other geographic groups."
"There's an issue with rampant vitamin D deficiency in the darker skinned residents of Sweden. And pretty much every temperate country.
Vitamin D deficiency has a strong relationship to increased mortality from all causes, but specifically from respiratory infections."
A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in Sweden - Nature Communications
Better understanding of who is at highest risk of death from COVID-19 is important for public health planning. Here, the authors demonstrate an unequal mortality burden associated with socially disadvantaged groups in Sweden.
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Summary article:
Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) - Stockholm University
The Department of Sociology is home to the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), an international group of scholars and doctoral students, working on many facets of population dynamics. It offers a Master’s program in Demography and a PhD program in Sociological Demography.
Most important findings:
• Men had more than twice as high a risk of dying from COVID-19 than women.
• Unmarried men and women (including those never married, widows/widowers and the divorced) had a 1.5-2 times as high a risk of dying from COVID-19 as those who were married.
• Living in the Stockholm area was linked to a 4.5 times as high risk of dying from COVID-19 (for both men and women) compared with the rest of the country.
• Those born abroad from low- and middle-income countries in the Middle East and North Africa had twice as high a mortality from COVID-19 for women and 3 times as high for men compared with people born in Sweden.
• Those born abroad from low- and middle-income countries outside the Middle East and North Africa had a more than 1.5 times as high mortality from COVID-19.
Two speculations quoting from the Reddit/r/science comments for why ethnics might have been hit harder, relating to Vitamin D deficiency (which I believe also could help acnecels here):
"Gene variants found most often in northern Europeans protect against lung infections like Covid better than those found in other geographic groups."
"There's an issue with rampant vitamin D deficiency in the darker skinned residents of Sweden. And pretty much every temperate country.
Vitamin D deficiency has a strong relationship to increased mortality from all causes, but specifically from respiratory infections."
