2021, Number 3
Características clínico-epidemiológicas de pacientes confirmados para a doença no estágio pós-COVID-19 em Camagüey
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ABSTRACT
The year 2020 surprises the world with a new coronavirus that produces the highly contagious COVID-19 disease, with a significant mortality. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out during the period from July to November 2020 with the aim of characterizing clinically and epidemiologically patients confirmed to have the disease in the post-COVID-19 stage in Camagüey. The study universe made up of 27 patients who attended the emergency service of the health areas with respiratory symptoms and the 36 patients from abroad positive for RT-CPR, for a total of 63. The variables were used: age, sex, source of infection, country of origin, airport of arrival in the country, affected municipalities, clinical manifestations and associated chronic diseases. The data were processed through the SPSS version 25.0 statistical package. COVID-19 affected young people between 20 and 39 years old (47.7%) of the male sex (60.3%), with a predominance of those imported from abroad (57%) from Venezuela (33.3%), entering the country through the José Martí airport (61.2%). Camagüey was the most affected municipality (58.7%) where asymptomatic patients (73%), with arterial hypertension (17.4%) and diabetes mellitus (11.1%) predominated.REFERENCES
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