Table 1 Basic characteristics and risk factors at baseline of the study population.

From: Course of disease and risk factors for hospitalization in outpatients with a SARS-CoV-2 infection

Parameter

All (n = 710)

Male (n = 285)

Female (n = 425)

p-value*

Age in years

53 (40–62)

55 (39–63)

52 (40–60)

0.067

BMI in kg/m2

26.6 (23.7–29.9)

27.5 (24.7–30.5)

25.9 (23.0–29.6)

3.4 × 10–4

Grade of disability in %

50 (30–60)

50 (40–70)

50 (30–60)

0.070

Current smoker

116 (16.3%)

45 (15.8%)

71 (16.7%)

0.746

Former smoker

211 (29.7%)

120 (42.1%)

91 (21.4%)

3.3 × 10–9

Participants with at least one comorbidity (%)

489 (68.9%)

201 (70.5%)

288 (67.8%)

0.436

Hypertension

264 (37.2%)

117 (41.1%)

147 (34.6%)

0.081

Allergy

144 (20.3%)

49 (17.2%)

95 (22.4%)

0.094

Joint diseases

133 (18.7%)

55 (19.3%)

78 (18.4%)

0.752

Cardiovascular diseases

80 (11.3%)

47 (16.5%)

33 (7.8%)

3.1 × 10–4

Pulmonary diseases

64 (9.0%)

33 (11.6%)

31 (7.3%)

0.051

Diabetes mellitus

61 (8.6%)

35 (12.3%)

26 (6.1%)

0.004

Neoplasia

56 (7.9%)

28 (9.8%)

28 (6.6%)

0.117

Neurological diseases

50 (7.0%)

21 (7.4%)

29 (6.8%)

0.781

Liver diseases

49 (6.9%)

16 (5.6%)

33 (7.8%)

0.268

Kidney diseases

33 (4.6%)

15 (5.3%)

18 (4.2%)

0.526

Peripheral artery disease

14 (2.0%)

8 (2.8%)

6 (1.4%)

0.190

Participants with disability

138 (19.4%)

62 (21.8%)

76 (17.9%)

0.201

  1. Shown are median (first and third quartile) for age, BMI and grade of disability and absolute number (prevalence) for the remaining variables.
  2. *For differences between male and female participants (calculated using Pearson χ2 test except for age, BMI and grade of disability where Mann–Whitney U test was used).