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The association between race and risk of illness and death due to COVID-19: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Talita Araujo de Souza, Pedro Henrique Alcântara da Silva, Aryelly Dayane da Silva Nunes, Ivani Iasmim de Araújo, Victor Hugo de Oliveira Segundo, Dalyanna Mildred de Oliveira Viana Pereira, Isabelle Ribeiro Barbosa, Gilson de Vasconcelos Torres

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Article in Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Talita Araujo de SouzaPostgraduate Program in Health Sciences.ORCID 0000-0002-3138-6626
Pedro Henrique Alcântara da SilvaPostgraduate Program in Public Health.ORCID 0000-0001-6874-2586
Aryelly Dayane da Silva NunesPostgraduate Program in Public Health.ORCID 0000-0002-3814-2675
Ivani Iasmim de AraújoFaculty of Health Science of Trairi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz, RN, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-2452-2263
Victor Hugo de Oliveira SegundoPostgraduate Program in Public Health.ORCID 0000-0002-4596-9590
Dalyanna Mildred de Oliveira Viana PereiraPostgraduate Program in Health Sciences.ORCID 0000-0002-3999-928
Isabelle Ribeiro BarbosaPostgraduate Program in Public Health.ORCID 0000-0002-1385-2849
Gilson de Vasconcelos TorresPostgraduate Program in Health Sciences.ORCID 0000-0003-2265-5078
AbbVie (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe Corona Virus Disease, 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic revealed many social disparities that already exist in countries that have social inequalities in their historical context. Studies have already been published on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of population groups considered to be at risk where they reveal that Black people are at greater risk of becoming ill and dying from this cause. In this context, this protocol describes a systematic review that aims to analyze the association of race as the higher risk for illness and death due to COVID-19.

methodsThis protocol will be developed based on the recommendations of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA-P). For this, we will conduct searches in the PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Lilacs, and ScienceDirect databases in the search for cross-sectional studies. All cross-sectional studies that analyzed hospitalization and death by COVID-19 as race in its determinant will be included. The search will be carried out by 2 independent researchers who will carry out the selection of articles, then the duplicate studies will be removed and screened using the Rayyan QCRI application. To assess the risk of bias, the instrument proposed by Downs and Black will be used. Meta-analyzes and subgroup analyzes will be carried out according to included data conditions.

resultsBased on this review, it will be possible to carry out a high-quality synthesis of available evidence that brings race as a factor for illness and death by COVID-19 and to verify which race is most affected by this disease.

conclusionThe relevance of this systematic review to the current context is considered, as it has a high potential to assist in the development of public health strategies and policies that address existing racial differences.Record of systematic review: CRD42020208767.

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BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Cross-Sectional StudiesHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicPandemicsPneumonia, ViralResearch DesignRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Systematic Reviews as Topic

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PMID33181651
PMCPMC7668480
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