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Prevalence, Demographics, and Risk of Severe Acute COVID-19

Background: Our goal was to assess the demographics, risk factors, and hospital admission and length of stay (LOS) among patients with acute COVID-19 and to identify whether age, smoking status, race, risk factors, and sex significantly affect the severity of illness according to hospitalization or...

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Autores principales: Munipalli, Bala, Knight, Dacre, Logvinov, Ilana, Abu Dabrh, Abd Moain
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804705
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18851
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author Munipalli, Bala
Knight, Dacre
Logvinov, Ilana
Abu Dabrh, Abd Moain
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description Background: Our goal was to assess the demographics, risk factors, and hospital admission and length of stay (LOS) among patients with acute COVID-19 and to identify whether age, smoking status, race, risk factors, and sex significantly affect the severity of illness according to hospitalization or admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Severity was defined as admission to the hospital or ICU. Methods: This retrospective cohort chart review included patients who received care from March 13 to August 17, 2020, at a single academic medical center. Age, COVID-19 risk factors, sex, race, smoking history, and hospital LOS were analyzed with hospital admission and ICU admission. Categorical variables were summarized. Results: The chart review assessed 1,697 adult patients with various degrees of severity of COVID-19 illness: 23 patients had been admitted to the hospital, and 7 had been admitted to the ICU. Older age and more COVID-19 risk factors, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were significantly associated with hospital admissions, and longer LOS was statistically associated with ICU admission. Conclusions: Severe COVID-19 infection was associated with older age and more risk factors. Current smoking status, sex, and race were not significantly different between hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 infection who were admitted to the ICU and those who were not admitted to the ICU.
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spelling pubmed-85963372021-11-20 Prevalence, Demographics, and Risk of Severe Acute COVID-19 Munipalli, Bala Knight, Dacre Logvinov, Ilana Abu Dabrh, Abd Moain Cureus Internal Medicine Background: Our goal was to assess the demographics, risk factors, and hospital admission and length of stay (LOS) among patients with acute COVID-19 and to identify whether age, smoking status, race, risk factors, and sex significantly affect the severity of illness according to hospitalization or admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Severity was defined as admission to the hospital or ICU. Methods: This retrospective cohort chart review included patients who received care from March 13 to August 17, 2020, at a single academic medical center. Age, COVID-19 risk factors, sex, race, smoking history, and hospital LOS were analyzed with hospital admission and ICU admission. Categorical variables were summarized. Results: The chart review assessed 1,697 adult patients with various degrees of severity of COVID-19 illness: 23 patients had been admitted to the hospital, and 7 had been admitted to the ICU. Older age and more COVID-19 risk factors, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were significantly associated with hospital admissions, and longer LOS was statistically associated with ICU admission. Conclusions: Severe COVID-19 infection was associated with older age and more risk factors. Current smoking status, sex, and race were not significantly different between hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 infection who were admitted to the ICU and those who were not admitted to the ICU. Cureus 2021-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8596337/ /pubmed/34804705 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18851 Text en Copyright © 2021, Munipalli et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Abu Dabrh, Abd Moain
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title_full Prevalence, Demographics, and Risk of Severe Acute COVID-19
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title_short Prevalence, Demographics, and Risk of Severe Acute COVID-19
title_sort prevalence, demographics, and risk of severe acute covid-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804705
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18851
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