2021, Number 1
Clinical and epidemiological characterization of patients with COVID-19
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: The SARS-CoV-2 virus is transmissible between humans and has caused a pandemic.Objective: To characterize clinically and epidemiologically patients with COVID-19.
Methods: Descriptive study, between March and May 2020, of 187 patients confirmed for SARS-CoV-2, by the real-time polymerase chain reaction test. The variables described were: age, sex, comorbidities, state at discharge and admission to the intensive care ward, confirmation of the direct cause of death and fatality; in addition, correlations between these variables were explored.
Results: The female sex prevailed with 54.5% and the age group between 18 to 59 years (52.4%), the mean age was higher than 40 years. 91.9% of the patients were discharged alive and 88.4% did not require intensive care. The fatality was 6.9%. There was a statistically significant correlation between the state at the deceased discharge and the stay in intensive care, arterial hypertension, other comorbidities and being 60 years of age or older.
Conclusions: Patients with clinical symptoms and signs predominated, in whom admission to the ICU was not necessary, a higher incidence was observed in females and between 18 and 59 years for both sexes. All the deceased under the age of 60 were male. There was a strong correlation between the deceased discharge status, with the stay in intensive care, HBP, other comorbidities, and being 60 years old and over.
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