Intermarriage and COVID-19 mortality among immigrants. A population-based cohort study from Sweden.

Siddartha AradhyaMaria BrandénSven DrefahlOgnjen ObućinaGunnar AnderssonMikael RostilaEleonora MussinoSol Pia Juárez

Published in: BMJ open (2021)

Language barriers and/or poor institutional awareness are not major drivers for the excess mortality from COVID-19 among immigrants. Rather, our study provides suggestive evidence that excess mortality among immigrants is explained by differential exposure to the virus.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
cardiovascular events
sars cov
risk factors
coronary artery disease
cardiovascular disease
respiratory syndrome coronavirus