Underlying medical conditions associated with increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19

The list, in alphabetical order, according to the CDC:

Asthma

Cancer

Cerebrovascular disease

Chronic kidney disease

Chronic liver disease

Chronic lung disease

Cystic fibrosis

Diabetes mellitus, Type 1 or 2

Disabilities

  • ADHD
  • Autism
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Charcot Foot
  • Chromosomal disorders
  • Chromosome 17 and 19 deletion
  • Chromosome 18q deletion
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Congenital hydrocephalus
  • Congenital malformations
  • Deafness/hearing loss
  • Disability indicated by Barthel Index
  • Down syndrome
  • Fahr’s syndrome
  • Fragile X syndrome
  • Gaucher disease
  • Hand and foot disorders
  • Learning disabilities
  • Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) or Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA)
  • Leigh syndrome
  • Limitations with self-care or activities of daily living
  • Maternal inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD)
  • Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) and risk markers
  • Mobility disability
  • Movement disorders
  • Multiple disability (referred to in research papers as “bedridden disability”)
  • Multisystem disease
  • Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF)
  • Myotonic dystrophy
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Neuromuscular disorders
  • Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD)
  • Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP)
  • Perinatal spastic hemiparesis
  • Primary mitochondrial myopathy (PMM)
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy
  • Senior-Loken syndrome
  • Severe and complex disability (referred to in research papers as “polyhandicap disability”)
  • Spina bifida and other nervous system anomalies
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Visual impairment/blindness

Heart conditions

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

Mental health conditions, limited to:

  • Mood disorders, including depression
  • Schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Obesity

Physical inactivity

Pregnancy and recent pregnancy

Primary immunodeficiencies

Smoking (current and former)

Solid organ or blood stem cell transplantation

Tuberculosis

Use of corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive medications