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International Journal of Tropical Medicine

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Clinical Study of the Effect of Number of Comorbidities on Outcome in Covid‐19 Positive Geriatric Population in India

Tahir Akhtar, S. Vidya Nagar, Shefali Sangeet Shrivastava, Madhav Mahajan and Ajay Supe
Page: 35-38 | Received 25 Nov 2023, Published online: 11 Dec 2023

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) presents with a broad spectrum of severity. The majority of patients presenting with COVID‐19 experience a mild illness that can usually be managed in the conservatively. The COVID‐19 global pandemic has had an impact on every demographic, especially the elderly. Major clinical features of the disease include fever, dry cough and dyspnoea that can lead to a severe respiratory distress in some patients but also other signs and symptoms also occur. The study was conducted on 100 patients at a tertiary care hospital from November‐April 2020‐2022. All geriatric patients admitted in wards and ICU of dedicated COVID hospital were included in this study. Sample was collected as nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab tested at tertiary care hospital, microbiology COVID lab or any other lab. After selection a complete history was obtained either from patients or relatives. A through general examination was done. Patient was subjected to biochemical investigation and radiological investigations. Investigations were done on day of admission and during the hospital stay. Finding was recorded and data was recorded in proforma. Majority of the patients were males (63%) with a male‐to‐female ratio of 1.70:1. Older patients with COVID‐19 have higher proportion of comorbidities and the most common dual comorbidities were DM and Hypertension (21%) and DM and CKD (5%) and most single comorbidity was hypertension (15%) followed by DM (11%) IHD (9%) and COPD (5%). Sixteen patients had 3 comorbidities. In the above study it was found that older patients with COVID‐19 have higher proportion of comorbidities.

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Tahir Akhtar, S. Vidya Nagar, Shefali Sangeet Shrivastava, Madhav Mahajan and Ajay Supe. Clinical Study of the Effect of Number of Comorbidities on Outcome in Covid‐19 Positive Geriatric Population in India.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.59218/makijtm.2023.4.35.38
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