Suspected cases were studied because test results were not sent to GPs during the research period.
That increased risk was not necessarily because of factors such as other health conditions, obesity or social deprivation, the research found.
Anonymised data was taken from the primary care records of about 1.2m adults registered with 157 practices in four east London clinical commissioning groups during the peak of the outbreak.
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