Death by SARS-CoV 2: a Romanian COVID-19 multi-centre comorbidity study

Sci Rep. 2020 Dec 10;10(1):21613. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-78575-w.

Abstract

Evidence regarding the relation between SARS-CoV-2 mortality and the underlying medical condition is scarce. We conducted an observational, retrospective study based on Romanian official data about location, age, gender and comorbidities for COVID-19 fatalities. Our findings indicate that males, hypertension, diabetes, obesity and chronic kidney disease were most frequent in the COVID-19 fatalities, that the burden of disease was low, and that the prognosis for 1-year survival probability was high in the sample. Evidence shows that age-dependent pairs of comorbidities could be a negative prognosis factor for the severity of disease for the SARS-CoV 2 infection.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • COVID-19 / ethnology
  • COVID-19 / mortality*
  • Comorbidity
  • Diabetes Mellitus / ethnology
  • Diabetes Mellitus / mortality*
  • Ethnicity
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / ethnology
  • Hypertension / mortality*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Obesity / ethnology
  • Obesity / mortality
  • Pandemics
  • Risk Factors
  • Romania / epidemiology
  • Romania / ethnology
  • SARS-CoV-2*