Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the study cohorts
Risk factor | Long COVID | PACS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Controls | Cases | Controls | Cases | |
N | 5917 | 2751 | 106,467 | 1940 |
Sociodemographic factors | ||||
 Age [Mean (SD)] | 66.56 (7.24) | 66.31 (7.53) | 67.3 (8.2) | 71.63 (7.71) |
Sex (%) | ||||
 Female | 3061 (51.73) | 1486 (54.02) | 59,547 (55.93) | 834 (42.99) |
 Male | 2856 (48.27) | 1265 (45.98) | 46,920 (44.07) | 1106 (57.01) |
BMI [kg/m2] [Mean (SD)] | 25.85 (3.85) | 26.43 (4.15) | 27.28 (4.56) | 28.94 (4.85) |
Index of multiple deprivation | 13.43 (10.71) | 14.83 (11.55) | 16.76 (13.17) | 19.22 (14.38) |
Ethnic background (%) | ||||
 White | 5698 (96.3) | 2628 (95.53) | 100,694 (94.58) | 1827 (94.18) |
 Non-white | 219 (3.7) | 123 (4.47) | 5,773 (5.42) | 113 (5.82) |
Smoking status (%) | ||||
 Never | 3899 (65.89) | 1713 (62.27) | 61,364 (57.64) | 918 (47.32) |
 Previous | 1676 (28.33) | 866 (31.48) | 35,975 (33.79) | 785 (40.46) |
 Current | 342 (5.78) | 172 (6.25) | 9128 (8.57) | 237 (12.22) |
