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COVID-19 Severity According to Age Groups in an Ecuadorian Hospital
| العنوان: | COVID-19 Severity According to Age Groups in an Ecuadorian Hospital |
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| المؤلفون: | Lina Espinoza Neri-Pire, Freddy Fernando Jumbo Salazar, Jenny Olivia Caicedo Rodríguez |
| المصدر: | Medisur, Vol 21, Iss 6, Pp 60-67 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine (General) LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | covid-19, grupos de edad, ecuador, Medicine (General), R5-920, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: | Foundation: an increment in the COVID-19 severity has been observed with increasing age. Elderly people are more susceptible to suffer severity during SARS-CoV-2 infection due to weak immunity and other organ dysfunctions. Objective: to compare the COVID-19 severity in different age groups at the Ambato General Teaching Hospital, Ecuador. Method: a descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out. The studied population was made up of 659 patients with COVID-19 treated at the Ambato General Teaching Hospital, at the end of 2021. The patients were separated into three age groups: young, middle-aged and older adults; the severity of COVID-19 was managed as mild, severe and serious. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to determine differences in severity between age groups. Results: the COVID-19 severity tended to increase with age, as the group of older adults had the highest average range, followed by the group of middle-aged adults and, finally, by young adults. The Kruskal-Wallis H value was 238.522 with p < 0.01. Conclusions: in the patients studied, the COVID-19 severity varied according to age groups, with a greater result as age increased. This shows the need for care based on age and the need to draw up policies to quickly care for older adults diagnosed with COVID-19. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | Spanish; Castilian |
| تدمد: | 1727-897X |
| Relation: | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/45106; https://doaj.org/toc/1727-897X |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/1186012ddbef4c67a58c42fbe0b87c9d |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.1186012ddbef4c67a58c42fbe0b87c9d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 1727897X |
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