Fig. 7: Adjusted Hazard Ratio for 2-Year Death Among Patients with an Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection from April 2020 through December 2022 Stratified by Rural-Urban Residency. | Nature Communications

Fig. 7: Adjusted Hazard Ratio for 2-Year Death Among Patients with an Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection from April 2020 through December 2022 Stratified by Rural-Urban Residency.

From: Higher mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection in rural versus urban dwellers persists for two years post-infection

Fig. 7: Adjusted Hazard Ratio for 2-Year Death Among Patients with an Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection from April 2020 through December 2022 Stratified by Rural-Urban Residency.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Figure 7 contains Cox Proportional Hazards models for all-cause mortality among patients with an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection from April 2020 through December 2022, stratified by rurality (rural residents on the left and urban residents on the right). Adjustments were made for sex, age, race/ethnicity, SARS-CoV-2 variant-dominant period at the time of infection, vaccination status, Social Vulnerability Index, U.S. Census Division, and a history of obesity, hypertension, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, rheumatic disease cerebrovascular disease, dementia, chronic pulmonary disease, peptic ulcer disease, hemiplegia or paraplegia, diabetes, liver disease, renal disease, cancer, HIV, tobacco usage, and substance use disorder documented before COVID-19. Forest plots display hazard ratios (points) on a log scale, with horizontal lines representing 95% confidence intervals (error bars). The vertical line indicates the null value of 1.0. Full model specifications are available in Supplementary Data 8.

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