Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland

Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the wider EAVE II team for their support for this study. The authors would also like to thank Helen R Stagg for her valuable comments. The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the eDRIS Team (Public Health Scotland) for their involvement in obtaining approvals, provisioning and linking data and the use of the secure analytical platform within the National Safe Heaven. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: UA is funded by the HDR UK Measuring and Understanding Multi-morbidity using Routine Data in the UK – (MUrMuRUK) project. AF is funded by the CSO Rapid Research in Covid-19 Programme. EAVE II funded by the Medical Research Council (MR/R008345/1) with the support of BREATHE - The Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health [MC_PC_19004], which is funded through the UK Research and Innovation Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and delivered through Health Data Research UK. Linkage of these datasets was funded via the Chief Scientist Office, Scotland.Peer reviewedPublisher PD