Chronic heart diseases as the most prevalent comorbidities among deaths by COVID-19 in Brazil
ABSTRACT Age, sex and presence of comorbidities are risk factors associated with COVID-19. Hypertension, diabetes and heart disease are the most common comorbidities in patients with COVID-19. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of patients with comorbidities who died of COVID...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
2020-06-01
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Series: | Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652020000100605&tlng=en |