Critical Care Explorations (Aug 2021)

Risk Factors for Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Mortality in Hospitalized Young Adults: An Analysis of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS) Coronavirus Disease 2019 Registry

  • Sandeep Tripathi, MD, MS,
  • Imran A. Sayed, MD,
  • Heda Dapul, MD,
  • Jeremy S. McGarvey, MS,
  • Jennifer A. Bandy, RN,
  • Karen Boman, BS,
  • Vishakha K. Kumar, MD, MBA,
  • Vikas Bansal, MBBS, MPH,
  • Lynn Retford, CAE,
  • Sreekanth Cheruku, MD, MPH,
  • Margit Kaufman, MD, FASA,
  • Smith F. Heavner, MS, RN,
  • Valerie C. Danesh, PhD, RN,
  • Catherine A. St. Hill, DVM, PhD,
  • Ashish K. Khanna, MD,
  • Utpal Bhalala, MD,
  • Rahul Kashyap, MBBS, MBA,
  • Ognjen Gajic, MD, MS,
  • Allan J. Walkey, MD, MS,
  • Katja M. Gist, DO, MSc,
  • for The Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study (VIRUS): COVID-19 Registry Investigator Group,
  • Jean-Baptiste Mesland,
  • Pierre Henin,
  • Hélène Petre,
  • Isabelle Buelens,
  • Anne-Catherine Gerard,
  • Philippe Clevenbergh,
  • Rolando Claure-Del Granado,
  • Jose A. Mercado,
  • Esdenka Vega-Terrazas,
  • Maria F. Iturricha-Caceres,
  • Ruben Garza,
  • Eric Chu,
  • Victoria Chan,
  • Oscar Y Gavidia,
  • Felipe Pachon,
  • Yeimy A Sanchez,
  • Mohamed El Kassas,
  • Mohamed Badr,
  • Ahmed Tawheed,
  • Ahmed Tawheed,
  • Hend Yahia,
  • Sierra-Hoffman,
  • Fernando Valerio,
  • Oscar Diaz,
  • Jose Luis Ramos Coello,
  • Guillermo Perez,
  • Ana Karen Vallecillo Lizardo,
  • Gabina María Reyes Guillen,
  • Helin Archaga Soto,
  • Mradul Kumar Daga,
  • Munisha Agarwal,
  • Ishan Rohtagi,
  • Anusha Cherian,
  • Sreejith Parameswaran,
  • Magesh Parthiban,
  • Menu Priya A.,
  • Girish Vadgaonkar,
  • Rekha Ediga,
  • Shilpa Basety,
  • Shwetha Dammareddy,
  • Phani Sreeharsha Kasumalla,
  • Sridhar Papani,
  • Mahesh Kamuram,
  • Smitha S. Segu,
  • Tuhin Chakraborty,
  • Epcebha Joyce,
  • Umamaheswara Raju,
  • Janaki Manduva,
  • Naresh Kolakani,
  • Shreeja Sripathi,
  • Sheetal Chaitanya,
  • Surapaneni Krishna Mohan,
  • Ekambaram Jyothisree,
  • Kamlesh Kumar Agrawal,
  • Vijendra Baghel,
  • Kirti Kumar Patel,
  • Nooshin Dalili,
  • Mohsen Nafa,
  • Sandeep Tripathi,
  • Yuki Itagaki,
  • Akira Kodate,
  • Reina Suzuki,
  • Akira Kodate,
  • Yuki Takahashi,
  • Koyo Moriki,
  • Michihito Kyo,
  • Reina Suzuki,
  • Masamitsu Sanui,
  • Sho Horikita,
  • Wataru Matsuda,
  • Reina Suzuki,
  • Shu Tahara,
  • Mineji Hayakawa,
  • Kunihiko Maekawa,
  • Takuya Shiga,
  • Yudai Iwasaki,
  • Abdulrahman AlFares,
  • Rene Rodriguez-Gutierrez,
  • Jose Gerardo Gonzalez-Gonzalez,
  • Alejandro Salcido-Montenegro,
  • Adrian Camacho-Ortiz,
  • Fatimah Hassan-Hanga,
  • Hadiza Galadanci,
  • Abubakar Shehu Gezawa,
  • Halima M. S. Kabara,
  • Taiwo Gboluwaga Amole,
  • Halima Kabir,
  • Dalha Gwarzo,
  • Haliru, Abdullahi S Ibrahim,
  • Muhammad Sohaib Asghar,
  • Mashaal Syed,
  • Syed Anosh Ali Naqvi,
  • Igor Borisovich Zabolotskikh,
  • Konstantin Dmitrievich Zybin,
  • Sergey Vasilevich Sinkov,
  • Tatiana Sergeevna Musaeva,
  • Marwa Ridha Amer,
  • Mohammed Abdullah Bawazeer,
  • Talal I. Dahhan,
  • Eiad Kseibi,
  • Abid Shahzad Butt,
  • Syed Moazzum Khurshid,
  • Muath Rabee,
  • Mohammed Abujazar,
  • Razan Alghunaim,
  • Maal Abualkhair,
  • Abeer Turki AlFirm,
  • Eiad Kseibi,
  • Syed Moazzum Khurshid,
  • Muath Rabee,
  • Mohammed Abujazar,
  • Razan Alghunaim,
  • Razan K Alamoudi,
  • Hassan M. AlSharif,
  • Sarah A. Almazwaghi,
  • Mohammed S Elsakran,
  • Mohamed A Aid,
  • Mouaz A Darwich,
  • Omnia M Hagag,
  • Salah A Ali,
  • Alona rocacorba,
  • Kathrine Supeña,
  • Efren Ray Juane,
  • Jenalyn Medina,
  • Jowany Baduria,
  • Mohammed A Almazyad,
  • Mohammed I Alarifi,
  • Jara M Macarambon,
  • Ahmad Abdullah Bukhari,
  • Hussain A. Albahrani,
  • Kazi N Asfina,
  • Kaltham M Aldossary,
  • Predrag D Stevanovic,
  • Dejan S Stojakov,
  • Duska K Ignjatovic,
  • Suzana C Bojic,
  • Marina M Bobos,
  • Irina B Nenadic,
  • Milica S Zaric,
  • Marko D Djuric,
  • Vladimir R Djukic,
  • Bojan Kovacevic,
  • Jovana Bojicic,
  • Marija Zdravkovic,
  • Zoran Todorovic,
  • Viseslav Popadic,
  • Slobodan Klasnja,
  • Santiago Y. Teruel,
  • Belen C. Martin,
  • Santiago Y. Teruel,
  • Himat Sulaimonov,
  • Firuza Khudonazarova,
  • Nabi Bakhtibekov,
  • Nekruz Jamshedov,
  • Uluhan Sili,
  • Huseyin Bilgin,
  • Pinar Ay,
  • Varsha P Gharpure,
  • Usman Raheemi,
  • Kenneth W. Dodd,
  • Nicholas Goodmanson,
  • Kathleen Hesse,
  • Paige Bird,
  • Chauncey Weinert,
  • Nathan Schoenrade,
  • Abdulrahman Altaher,
  • Esmael Mayar,
  • Matthew Aronson,
  • Tyler Cooper,
  • Monica Logan,
  • Brianna Miner,
  • Gisele Papo,
  • Eric M. Siegal,
  • Phyllis Runningen,
  • Catherine A. St. Hill,
  • Roman R. Melamed,
  • David M. Tierney,
  • Love A. Patel,
  • Vino S. Raj,
  • Barite U. Dawud,
  • Narayana Mazumder,
  • Abbey Sidebottom,
  • Alena M. Guenther,
  • Benjamin D. Krehbiel,
  • Nova J. Schmitz,
  • Stacy L. Jepsen,
  • Abhijit A Raval,
  • Andrea Franks,
  • Katherine Irby,
  • Ronald C. Sanders, Jr.,
  • Glenda Hefley,
  • Anmol Kharbanda,
  • Sunil Jhajhria,
  • Zachary Fyffe,
  • Stephen Capizzi,
  • Bethany Alicie,
  • Martha Green,
  • Lori Crockarell,
  • Amelia Drennan,
  • Kathleen Dubuque,
  • Tonya Fambrough,
  • Nikole Gasaway,
  • Briana Krantz,
  • Peiman Nebi,
  • Jan Orga,
  • Margaret Serfass,
  • Alina Simion,
  • Kimberly Warren,
  • Cassie Wheeler,
  • CJ Woolman,
  • Andrew S. Moyer,
  • George M. Verghese,
  • Andrea Sikora Newsome,
  • Christy C. Forehand,
  • Rebecca Bruning,
  • Timothy W. Jones,
  • Moldovan Sabov,
  • Fatema Zaidi,
  • Fiona Tissavirasingham,
  • Dhatri Malipeddi,
  • Jarrod M Mosier,
  • Karen Lutrick,
  • Beth Salvagio Campbell,
  • Cathleen Wilson,
  • Patrick Rivers,
  • Jonathan Brinks,
  • Mokenge Ndiva Mongoh,
  • Boris Gilson,
  • Donna Lee Armaignac,
  • Don Parris,
  • Maria Pilar Zuniga,
  • Ilea Vargas,
  • Viviana Boronat,
  • Anneka Hutton,
  • Navneet Kaur,
  • Prashank Neupane,
  • Nohemi Sadule-Rios,
  • Lourdes M. Rojas,
  • Aashish Neupane,
  • Priscilla Rivera,
  • Carlos Valle Carlos,
  • Gregory Vincent,
  • Mahesh Amin,
  • Mary E Schelle,
  • Amanda Steadham,
  • Christopher M Howard,
  • Cameron McBride,
  • Jocelyn Abraham,
  • Orlando Garner,
  • Katherine Richards,
  • Keegan Collins,
  • Preethi Antony,
  • Sindhu Mathew,
  • Valerie C. Danesh,
  • Gueorgui Dubrocq,
  • Amber L. Davis,
  • Marissa J Hammers,
  • ill M. McGahey,
  • Amanda C. Farris,
  • Elisa Priest,
  • Robyn Korsmo,
  • Lorie Fares,
  • Kathy Skiles,
  • Susan M. Shor,
  • Kenya Burns,
  • Corrie A Dowell,
  • Melody Flores,
  • Lindsay Newman,
  • Debora A Wilk,
  • Jason Ettlinger,
  • Jaccallene Bomar,
  • Himani Darji,
  • Alejandro Arroliga,
  • Alejandro C Arroliga,
  • Corrie A. Dowell,
  • Gabriela Hope Conzales,
  • Melody Flores,
  • Lindsay Newman,
  • Debora A. Wilk,
  • Jason Ettlinger,
  • Himani Darji,
  • Jaccallene Bomar,
  • Paras B. Khandhar,
  • Elizabeth Kring,
  • Valerie M. Banner-Goodspeed,
  • Somnath Bose,
  • Lauren E. Kelly,
  • Melisa Joseph,
  • Marie McGourty,
  • Krystal Capers,
  • Benjamin Hoenig,
  • Maria C. Karamourtopoulos,
  • Anica C. Law,
  • Elias N. Baedorf Kassis,
  • Allan J. Walkey,
  • Sushrut S. Waikar,
  • Michael A. Garcia,
  • Mia Colona,
  • Zoe Kibbelaar,
  • Michael Leong,
  • Daniel Wallman,
  • Kanupriya Soni,
  • Jennifer Maccarone,
  • Joshua Gilman,
  • Ycar Devis,
  • Joseph Chung,
  • Munizay Paracha,
  • David N. Lumelsky,
  • Madeline DiLorenzo,
  • Najla Abdurrahman,
  • Shelsey Johnson,
  • Andrew M. Hersh,
  • Stephanie L Wachs,
  • Brittany S. Swigger,
  • Stephanie L Wachs,
  • Lauren A. Sattler,
  • Michael N. Moulton,
  • Kimberly Zammit,
  • J Patrick,
  • William McGrath,
  • Maya Loeffler,
  • R Chilbert,
  • Aaron S. Miller,
  • Edwin L. Anderson,
  • Rosemary Nagy,
  • Ravali R. Inja,
  • Raghavendra Tirupathi,
  • Alymer Tang,
  • Arshad Safi,
  • Cindy Green,
  • Jackie Newell,
  • Rayan E. Ihle,
  • Shelda A. Martin,
  • Elaine A. Davis,
  • Katja M. Gist,
  • Imran A Sayed,
  • John Brinton,
  • Larisa Strom,
  • Kathleen Chiotos,
  • Allison M. Blatz,
  • Giyoung Lee,
  • Ryan H. Burnett,
  • Guy I. Sydney,
  • Danielle M. Traynor,
  • Karissa Nauert,
  • Annika Gonzalez,
  • Mariel Bagley,
  • Anita Santpurkar,
  • Salim Surani,
  • Joshua White,
  • Aftab Khan,
  • Rahul Dhahwal,
  • Sreekanth Cheruku,
  • Farzin Ahmed,
  • Christopher Deonarine,
  • Ashley Jones,
  • Mohammad-Ali Shaikh,
  • David Preston,
  • Jeanette Chin,
  • Vidula Vachharajani,
  • Abhijit Duggal,
  • Prabalini Rajendram,
  • Omar Mehkri,
  • Siddharth Dugar,
  • Michelle Biehl,
  • Gretchen Sacha,
  • Stuart Houltham,
  • Alexander King,
  • Kiran Ashok,
  • Bryan Poynter,
  • Mary Beukemann,
  • Richard Rice,
  • Susan Gole,
  • Valerie Shaner,
  • Adarsh Conjeevaram,
  • Michelle Ferrari,
  • Narendrakumar Alappan,
  • Steven Minear,
  • Jaime Hernandez-Montfort,
  • Syed Sohaib Nasim,
  • Ravi Sunderkrishnan,
  • Debasis Sahoo,
  • Patrick S. Milligan,
  • Sandeep K. Gupta,
  • Joy M. Koglin,
  • Regina Gibson,
  • Lana Johnson,
  • Felicia Preston,
  • Crimson Scott,
  • Bethany Nungester,
  • Steven K. Daugherty,
  • Sam Atkinson,
  • Kelly Shrimpton,
  • Sidney Ontai,
  • Brian Contreras,
  • Uzoma Obinwanko,
  • Nneka Amamasi,
  • Amir Sharafi,
  • Sarah Lee,
  • Zahia Esber,
  • Chetna Jinjvadia,
  • Kimberly Welker,
  • Francis M. Maguire,
  • Jessica Timmer,
  • Raquel R Bartz,
  • Vijay Krishnamoorthy,
  • Bryan Kraft,
  • Aaron Pulsipher,
  • Eugene Friedman,
  • Sachin Mehta,
  • Margit Kaufman,
  • Gregg Lobel,
  • Nisha Gandhi,
  • Amr Abdelaty,
  • Elizabeth Shaji,
  • Kiana Lim,
  • Juan Marte,
  • Dani Ashley Sosa,
  • David P. Yamane,
  • Ivy Benjenk,
  • Nivedita Prasanna,
  • Smith F. Heavner-Sullivan,
  • Prera J. Roth,
  • Banu Sivaraj,
  • Haley Fulton,
  • Madison G Herin,
  • Marissa Crum,
  • Morgan E. Fretwell,
  • Emily-Rose Zhou,
  • Christine Waller,
  • Kara Kallies,
  • Christine Waller,
  • Jonean Thorsen,
  • Alec Fitzsimmons,
  • Haley Olsen,
  • Heda R. Dapul,
  • Sourabh Verma,
  • Alan Salas,
  • Ariel Daube,
  • Michelle Korn,
  • Michelle Ramirez,
  • Logi Rajagopalan,
  • Laura Santos,
  • Orma Smalls,
  • Atul Malhotra,
  • Abdurrahman Husain,
  • Qais Zawaydeh,
  • J.H. Steuernagle,
  • Steven Q. Davis,
  • Valentina Jovic,
  • Valentina Jovic,
  • Max Masuda,
  • Amanda Hayes,
  • Katharine Nault,
  • Michael Smith,
  • William Snow,
  • Riley Liptak,
  • Hannah Durant,
  • Valerie Pendleton,
  • Alay Nanavati,
  • Risa Mrozowsk,
  • LiManoj K Gupta,
  • Franscene E. Oulds,
  • Akshay Nandavar,
  • Yuk Ming Liu,
  • Sarah Zavala,
  • Sarah Zavala,
  • Esther Shim,
  • Ronald A. Reilkoff,
  • Julia A. Heneghan,
  • Sarah Eichen,
  • Lexie Goertzen,
  • Scott Rajala,
  • Ghislaine Feussom,
  • Ben Tang,
  • Christine C. Junia,
  • Robert Lichtenberg,
  • Hasrat Sidhu,
  • Diana Espinoza,
  • Shelden Rodrigues,
  • Maria Jose Zabala,
  • Daniela Goyes,
  • Ammu Susheela,
  • Buddhi Hatharaliyadda,
  • Naveen Rameshkumar,
  • Amulya Kasireddy,
  • Genessis Maldonado,
  • Lisseth Beltran,
  • Akshata Chaugule,
  • Hassan Khan,
  • Namrata Patil,
  • Ruhi Patil,
  • Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba,
  • Ayan Sen,
  • Amanda Palacios,
  • Giyth M. Mahdi,
  • Rahul Kashyap,
  • Ognjen Gajic,
  • Vikas Bansal,
  • Aysun Tekin,
  • Amos Lal,
  • John C. O’Horo,
  • Neha N. Deo,
  • Mayank Sharma,
  • Shahraz Qamar,
  • Cory J. Kudrna,
  • Juan Pablo Domecq Garces,
  • Abigail T. La Nou,
  • Marija Bogojevic,
  • Devang Sanghavi,
  • Pramod Guru,
  • Karthik Gnanapandithan,
  • Hollie Saunders,
  • Zachary Fleissner,
  • Juan Garcia,
  • Alejandra Yu Lee Mateus,
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  • Syed Anjum Khan,
  • Juan Pablo Domecq,
  • Nitesh Kumar Jain,
  • Thoyaja Koritala,
  • Alexander Bastidas,
  • Gabriela Orellana,
  • Adriana Briceno Bierwirth,
  • Eliana Milazzo,
  • Juan Guillermo Sierra,
  • Thao Dang,
  • Amy B. Christie,
  • Dennis W. Ashley,
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  • Paul A Bergl,
  • Jennifer L Peterson,
  • Travis Yamanaka,
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  • Michael Markos,
  • Anita Fareeduddin,
  • Rohan Mehta,
  • Chakradhar Venkata,
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  • Shohana Ahmed,
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  • Ahmad Hamdan,
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  • Jen-Ting Chen,
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  • Balagangadhar Totapally,
  • Bhagat S. Aulakh,
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  • Jennifer A. Bandy,
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  • Dawn R. Bollinger,
  • Jennifer A. Bandy,
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  • Harry L. Anderson, III,
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  • Umang Patel,
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  • Michael A. Bernstein,
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  • Komal Dasani,
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  • Dr.Brent R Brown,
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  • Jose D. Caceres,
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  • Harmeen Goraya,
  • Kelsey R. Besett,
  • Ryan James,
  • Lana Y. Abusalem,
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  • Dina Gomaa,
  • Michael Goodman,
  • Devin Wakefield,
  • Anthony Spuzzillo,
  • John O. Shinn, II,
  • Azra Bihorac,
  • Tezcan Ozrazgat Baslanti,
  • George Omalay,
  • Haleh Hashemighouchani,
  • Julie S. Cupka,
  • Matthew M Ruppert,
  • Patrick W. McGonagill,
  • Colette Galet,
  • Janice Hubbard,
  • David Wang,
  • Lauren Allan,
  • Aditya Badheka,
  • Madhuradhar Chegondi,
  • Usman Nazir,
  • Garrett Rampon,
  • Jake Riggle,
  • Nathan Dismang,
  • Vicki Montgomery,
  • Janice Sullivan,
  • Sarah Morris,
  • Jennifer Nason,
  • Roger A. Alvarez,
  • Amarilys Alarcon-Calderon,
  • Marie Anne Sosa,
  • Sunita K. Mahabir,
  • Mausam J. Patel,
  • Pauline Park,
  • Andrew Admon,
  • Sinan Hanna,
  • Rishi Chanderraj,
  • Maria Pliakas,
  • Ann Wolski,
  • Jennifer Cirino,
  • Dima Dandachi,
  • Hariharan Regunath,
  • Maraya N. Camazine,
  • Grant. E. Geiger,
  • Abdoulie O. Njai,
  • Baraa M. Saad,
  • Faraaz Ali Shah,
  • Byron Chuan,
  • Sagar L. Rawal,
  • Manal Piracha,
  • Joseph E. Tonna,
  • Nicholas M. Levin,
  • Kayte Suslavich,
  • Rachel Tsolinas,
  • Zachary T. Fica,
  • Chloe R. Skidmore,
  • Renee D. Stapleton,
  • Anne E. Dixon,
  • Olivia Johnson,
  • Sara S. Ardren,
  • Stephanie Burns,
  • Anna Raymond,
  • Erika Gonyaw,
  • Kevin Hodgdon,
  • Chloe Housenger,
  • Benjamin Lin,
  • Karen McQuesten,
  • Heidi Pecott-Grimm,
  • Julie Sweet,
  • Sebastian Ventrone,
  • Nita Khandelwal,
  • T. Eoin West,
  • Ellen S. Caldwell,
  • Lara Lovelace-Macon,
  • Navya Garimella,
  • Denisse B. Dow,
  • Murtaza Akhter,
  • Rania Abdul Rahman,
  • Mary Mulrow,
  • Erin M. Wilfong,
  • Kelsi Vela,
  • Ashish K. Khanna,
  • Lynne Harris,
  • Bruce Cusson,
  • Jacob Fowler,
  • David Vaneenenaam,
  • Glen McKinney,
  • Imoh Udoh,
  • Kathleen Johnson,
  • Patrick G. Lyons,
  • Andrew P Michelson,
  • Sara S. Haluf,
  • Lauren M. Lynch,
  • Nguyet M. Nguyen,
  • Aaron Steinberg,
  • Nicholas Braus,
  • Vishwanath Pattan,
  • Jessica Papke,
  • Ismail Jimada,
  • Nida Mhid,
  • Samuel Chakola

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000514
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 8
p. e0514

Abstract

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IMPORTANCE:. Even with its proclivity for older age, coronavirus disease 2019 has been shown to affect all age groups. However, there remains a lack of research focused primarily on the young adult population. OBJECTIVES:. To describe the epidemiology and outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 and identify the risk factors associated with critical illness and mortality in hospitalized young adults. DESIGN, SETTINGS, AND PARTICIPANTS:. A retrospective cohort study of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal Study registry. Patients 18–40 years old, hospitalized from coronavirus disease 2019 from March 2020 to April 2021, were included in the analysis. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES:. Critical illness was defined as a composite of mortality and 21 predefined interventions and complications. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess associations with critical illness and mortality. RESULTS:. Data from 4,005 patients (152 centers, 19 countries, 18.6% non-U.S. patients) were analyzed. The median age was 32 years (interquartile range, 27–37 yr); 51% were female, 29.4% Hispanic, and 42.9% had obesity. Most patients (63.2%) had comorbidities, the most common being hypertension (14.5%) and diabetes (13.7%). Hospital and ICU mortality were 3.2% (129/4,005) and 8.3% (109/1,313), respectively. Critical illness occurred in 25% (n = 996), and 34.3% (n = 1,376) were admitted to the ICU. Older age (p = 0.03), male sex (adjusted odds ratio, 1.83 [95% CI, 1.2–2.6]), and obesity (adjusted odds ratio, 1.6 [95% CI, 1.1–2.4]) were associated with hospital mortality. In addition to the above factors, the presence of any comorbidity was associated with critical illness from coronavirus disease 2019. Multiple sensitivity analyses, including analysis with U.S. patients only and patients admitted to high-volume sites, showed similar risk factors. CONCLUSIONS:. Among hospitalized young adults, obese males with comorbidities are at higher risk of developing critical illness or dying from coronavirus disease 2019.