Prevalencia y factores asociados al desarrollo de COVID severo

Abstract

Introduction: The SARS-CoV2 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has a variable lethality due to the wide spread of the virus worldwide. Factors associated with severity are reported, such as age, sex and different comorbidities such as arterial hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic kidney disease and obesity. Objective: to establish the prevalence of COVID-19 and factors associated with severe COVID in patients admitted to the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital (HVCM). Methodology: An analytical, cross-sectional study was carried out with patients treated in the internal medicine service; The variables analyzed were age, sex, COVID-19 diagnosis, comorbidities: arterial hypertension (HBP), cardio vascular diseases (CVD), diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), obesity, severe COVID; descriptive statistics with percentages and frequencies, measures of dispersion and central tendency were performed. Association was determined with the chi-square statistic and to establish the direction and intensity of the relationship the OR together with its confidence intervals. The processing of the information was analyzed in the statistical program SPSS 25 and a significance of 5% (p<0.05) was considered. Conclusions: a prevalence of 28.87 COVID-19 was observed in the HVCM, being more frequent in males. Older adults and comorbidities such as arterial hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and obesity are risk factors related to severity.