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Revista Virtual de la Sociedad Paraguaya de Medicina Interna
On-line version ISSN 2312-3893
Abstract
VELAZQUEZ GONZALEZ, Celso and CASARTELLI VALL, Marcelo Elías. Sociodemographic characteristics and clinical risk factors of patients who died from COVID-19 at the Ciudad del Este Regional Hospital, 2021-2022. Rev. virtual Soc. Parag. Med. Int. [online]. 2023, vol.10, n.2, pp.70-76. Epub Sep 30, 2023. ISSN 2312-3893. https://doi.org/10.18004/rvspmi/2312-3893/2023.10.02.70.
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.
Keywords : risk factors; mortality; coronavirus infections; COVID-19.