Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQ
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the updated challenges facing the whole world. Objective: To identify the characteristics risk factors that present in humans to be more liable to get an infection than others. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted for positively co...
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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is
one of the updated challenges facing the whole world.
Objective: To identify the characteristics risk factors that
present in humans to be more liable to get an infection
than others.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted for
positively confirmed 35 patients with polymerase chain
reaction in Wasit province at AL-Zahraa Teaching
Hospital from the period of March 13th till April 20th. All
of them full a questionnaire regarded by risk factors and
other comorbidities. Data were analyzed by SPSS version
23 using frequency tables and percentage. For numerical
data, the median, and interquartile range (IQR) were used.
Differences between categorical groups were performed by
fissure exact test.
Results: The median age of the patients was 43 years old
and interquartile range (25-56 years). Majority of the
patients were female (60%) and (51%) of them were from
the same region (AL-ezza). The dominant blood group
among patients was (O) (40%). About 11.4% of patients
had a travel history especially to Islamic Republic of Iran,
while (77.1%) had contact with positive cases. The highest
percentage of comorbidities among patients was
hypertension (40%), and the most presenting symptoms
were cough and fever. About 51% of patients were with
mild symptoms. Diabetes, coronary heart diseases, and
chronic renal diseases were significantly related to disease
severity (P-value=0.02, 0.001, 0.01 respectively).
Conclusion: Being a female, overweight or obese, and
with blood group (O) are the major risk factors among
patients. Comorbidities can play an important role in the
severity of disease especially hypertension, diabetes,
coronary heart diseases, and chronic renal diseases.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ebf7618e072e4dc9a114eeca0e553d612022-12-22T04:02:44ZengUniversity of Baghdad/ Al-Kindy College of Medicineمجله كليه طب الكندي1810-95432521-43652020-07-0116supplement10.47723/kcmj.v16isupplement.174Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQTaqi M TaherFiras T SarraySaad A Farhan Al-BadriHasanain Fl Ghazi Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the updated challenges facing the whole world. Objective: To identify the characteristics risk factors that present in humans to be more liable to get an infection than others. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted for positively confirmed 35 patients with polymerase chain reaction in Wasit province at AL-Zahraa Teaching Hospital from the period of March 13th till April 20th. All of them full a questionnaire regarded by risk factors and other comorbidities. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 23 using frequency tables and percentage. For numerical data, the median, and interquartile range (IQR) were used. Differences between categorical groups were performed by fissure exact test. Results: The median age of the patients was 43 years old and interquartile range (25-56 years). Majority of the patients were female (60%) and (51%) of them were from the same region (AL-ezza). The dominant blood group among patients was (O) (40%). About 11.4% of patients had a travel history especially to Islamic Republic of Iran, while (77.1%) had contact with positive cases. The highest percentage of comorbidities among patients was hypertension (40%), and the most presenting symptoms were cough and fever. About 51% of patients were with mild symptoms. Diabetes, coronary heart diseases, and chronic renal diseases were significantly related to disease severity (P-value=0.02, 0.001, 0.01 respectively). Conclusion: Being a female, overweight or obese, and with blood group (O) are the major risk factors among patients. Comorbidities can play an important role in the severity of disease especially hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart diseases, and chronic renal diseases. https://jkmc.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/MEDICAL/article/view/174COVID-19, risk factors, Comorbidity, Iraq. |
| spellingShingle | Taqi M Taher Firas T Sarray Saad A Farhan Al-Badri Hasanain Fl Ghazi Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQ مجله كليه طب الكندي COVID-19, risk factors, Comorbidity, Iraq. |
| title | Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQ |
| title_full | Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQ |
| title_fullStr | Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQ |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQ |
| title_short | Comorbidity and Risk Factors for COVID-19 Confirmed Patients in Wasit Province, IRAQ |
| title_sort | comorbidity and risk factors for covid 19 confirmed patients in wasit province iraq |
| topic | COVID-19, risk factors, Comorbidity, Iraq. |
| url | https://jkmc.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/MEDICAL/article/view/174 |
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