Introduction:

The SARS-CoV-2 disease has had a great impact in our country, after having marked its presence throughout the world, producing high mortality rates in patients according to age and with associated risk factors.

Objective:

To determine sociodemographic characteristics and clinical risk factors of patients who died due to SARS-CoV-2 infection at the Regional Hospital of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, in the period 2021 and 2022.

Methodology:

An observational, descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study was carried out with non-probabilistic sampling. The population studied was deceased patients with a positive RT-PCR result for SARS-CoV-2, who were admitted to the Internal Medicine service and Intensive Care Unit of the Ciudad del Este Regional Hospital in the above-mentioned period. The variables analyzed were mortality, sex, age, risk factors and areas of hospitalization.

Results:

Eight hundred forty-four patients with a diagnosis of coronavirus infection were included, mortality rate was 38.86%. Of the deceased, 56.71% were male, over 60 years of age in 60.67% of the cases. Furthermore, 63.72% had clinical risk factors, the most frequent being high blood pressure (56.46%) and diabetes mellitus (51.67%). Of the deceased patients who did not present clinical risk factors, 56.30% were over 60 years of age and 13.11% of the deaths were in the Intensive Care Unit.

Conclusion:

Most patients who died from SARS-CoV-2 infection were over 60 years of age and male. High blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and obesity predominated among the risk factors.

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