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COVID-19 Clinical Profile in Latin American Migrants Living in Spain: Does the Geographical Origin Matter?

The aim of this study was to describe and compare the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia according to their geographical origin. This is a retrospective case-control study of hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia treated at Vall d’Hebron Unive...

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Autores principales: Sempere, Abiu, Salvador, Fernando, Monforte, Arnau, Sampol, Júlia, Espinosa-Pereiro, Juan, Miarons, Marta, Bosch-Nicolau, Pau, Guillén-del-Castillo, Alfredo, Aznar, Maria Luisa, Campos-Varela, Isabel, Sánchez-Montalvá, Adrián, Leguízamo-Martínez, Lina María, Oliveira, Inés, Antón, Andrés, Almirante, Benito
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8622310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34830495
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10225213
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author Sempere, Abiu
Salvador, Fernando
Monforte, Arnau
Sampol, Júlia
Espinosa-Pereiro, Juan
Miarons, Marta
Bosch-Nicolau, Pau
Guillén-del-Castillo, Alfredo
Aznar, Maria Luisa
Campos-Varela, Isabel
Sánchez-Montalvá, Adrián
Leguízamo-Martínez, Lina María
Oliveira, Inés
Antón, Andrés
Almirante, Benito
author_facet Sempere, Abiu
Salvador, Fernando
Monforte, Arnau
Sampol, Júlia
Espinosa-Pereiro, Juan
Miarons, Marta
Bosch-Nicolau, Pau
Guillén-del-Castillo, Alfredo
Aznar, Maria Luisa
Campos-Varela, Isabel
Sánchez-Montalvá, Adrián
Leguízamo-Martínez, Lina María
Oliveira, Inés
Antón, Andrés
Almirante, Benito
author_sort Sempere, Abiu
collection PubMed
description The aim of this study was to describe and compare the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia according to their geographical origin. This is a retrospective case-control study of hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia treated at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona) during the first wave of the pandemic. Cases were defined as patients born in Latin America and controls were randomly selected among Spanish patients matched by age and gender. Demographic and clinical variables were collected, including comorbidities, symptoms, vital signs and analytical parameters, intensive care unit admission and outcome at 28 days after admission. Overall, 1080 hospitalized patients were registered: 774 (71.6%) from Spain, 142 (13.1%) from Latin America and the rest from other countries. Patients from Latin America were considered as cases and 558 Spanish patients were randomly selected as controls. Latin American patients had a higher proportion of anosmia, rhinorrhea and odynophagia, as well as higher mean levels of platelets and lower mean levels of ferritin than Spanish patients. No differences were found in oxygen requirement and mortality at 28 days after admission, but there was a higher proportion of ICU admissions (28.2% vs. 20.2%, p = 0.0310). An increased proportion of ICU admissions were found in patients from Latin America compared with native Spanish patients when adjusted by age and gender, with no significant differences in in-hospital mortality.
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spelling pubmed-86223102021-11-27 COVID-19 Clinical Profile in Latin American Migrants Living in Spain: Does the Geographical Origin Matter? Sempere, Abiu Salvador, Fernando Monforte, Arnau Sampol, Júlia Espinosa-Pereiro, Juan Miarons, Marta Bosch-Nicolau, Pau Guillén-del-Castillo, Alfredo Aznar, Maria Luisa Campos-Varela, Isabel Sánchez-Montalvá, Adrián Leguízamo-Martínez, Lina María Oliveira, Inés Antón, Andrés Almirante, Benito J Clin Med Article The aim of this study was to describe and compare the clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia according to their geographical origin. This is a retrospective case-control study of hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia treated at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona) during the first wave of the pandemic. Cases were defined as patients born in Latin America and controls were randomly selected among Spanish patients matched by age and gender. Demographic and clinical variables were collected, including comorbidities, symptoms, vital signs and analytical parameters, intensive care unit admission and outcome at 28 days after admission. Overall, 1080 hospitalized patients were registered: 774 (71.6%) from Spain, 142 (13.1%) from Latin America and the rest from other countries. Patients from Latin America were considered as cases and 558 Spanish patients were randomly selected as controls. Latin American patients had a higher proportion of anosmia, rhinorrhea and odynophagia, as well as higher mean levels of platelets and lower mean levels of ferritin than Spanish patients. No differences were found in oxygen requirement and mortality at 28 days after admission, but there was a higher proportion of ICU admissions (28.2% vs. 20.2%, p = 0.0310). An increased proportion of ICU admissions were found in patients from Latin America compared with native Spanish patients when adjusted by age and gender, with no significant differences in in-hospital mortality. MDPI 2021-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8622310/ /pubmed/34830495 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10225213 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sempere, Abiu
Salvador, Fernando
Monforte, Arnau
Sampol, Júlia
Espinosa-Pereiro, Juan
Miarons, Marta
Bosch-Nicolau, Pau
Guillén-del-Castillo, Alfredo
Aznar, Maria Luisa
Campos-Varela, Isabel
Sánchez-Montalvá, Adrián
Leguízamo-Martínez, Lina María
Oliveira, Inés
Antón, Andrés
Almirante, Benito
COVID-19 Clinical Profile in Latin American Migrants Living in Spain: Does the Geographical Origin Matter?
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title_full COVID-19 Clinical Profile in Latin American Migrants Living in Spain: Does the Geographical Origin Matter?
title_fullStr COVID-19 Clinical Profile in Latin American Migrants Living in Spain: Does the Geographical Origin Matter?
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Clinical Profile in Latin American Migrants Living in Spain: Does the Geographical Origin Matter?
title_short COVID-19 Clinical Profile in Latin American Migrants Living in Spain: Does the Geographical Origin Matter?
title_sort covid-19 clinical profile in latin american migrants living in spain: does the geographical origin matter?
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8622310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34830495
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10225213
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