2020, Number 5
Clinical-epidemiological characterization of confirmed COVID-19 patients in Pinar del Río
Language: Spanish
References: 14
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: the study of the characteristics of COVID-19 patients allows the determination of risk groups and specific populations and the strategies designed by the institutions to deal with this situation.Objective: to characterize clinical and epidemiologically the confirmed COVID-19 patients in Pinar del Río.
Methods: an observational, descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study including the 52 confirmed cases of COVID-19 between March and May 2020 was conducted. Data were collected from clinical records and epidemiological surveys. Descriptive statistics was used.
Results: the age group between 40 and 59 years old predominated (rate of 8,2 per 10 thousand inhabitants), with predominance of male sex (rate of 0,8 per 10 thousand inhabitants). The 94,2 % of the patients presented a precise source of infection at the time of admission. The most frequent symptoms were fever (51,9 %), cough (40,4 %) and rhinorrhea (21,1 %). High blood pressure was present in 11,11 % of the patients, where 35,7 % of hypertensive patients developed acute inflammatory pneumopathy; 86,5 % of the patients were discharged from hospital after 14 days and 96,2 % were epidemiologically discharged after 28 days.
Conclusions: transmission was mostly autochthonous, less asymptomatic, where fever and cough were the main symptoms. Patients with comorbidities developed more complications. A positive response to treatment was found, achieving high percentages of clinical and epidemiological discharge at 14 and 28 days respectively.
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