Young patients with comorbidity were at greater risk

Throughout the 1st wave risk of the coronavirus pandemic in India, experts at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital performed a retrospective and discovered that younger patients with underlying comorbidities were comparatively at greater risk of contracting COVID-19.

Death rates as particularly in comparison to older patients on the basic underlying health issues. The report’s results were released on Saturday by Springer Nature in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry.  

To determine the impact of diabetes (DM), hypertension (HT), and chronic kidney disease (CKD) on the diagnosis and treatment and death rates of COVID-19 infectious disease in hospitalized. The research teams analyzed the information of 2586 COVID-19 critically ill patients who were hospitalized between April 8, 2020, and October 4, 2020.  

According to Dr Rashmi Rana, Researcher & Consultant, Department of Research, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, “Our study also indicated that females were relatively at higher risk of mortality as compared to males having the same comorbid illnesses except for hypertension patients.”  

According to the investigators, out of 2586 patients, 779 (30.1 per cent) required ICU hospitalization whereas 1807 (69.9 per cent) did not. Out of 2586 hospitalized COVID-19-infected patients, 2269 (87.7%) died, and 317 (12.3%) of those patients.  

Dr Vivek Ranjan, co-author and chairperson of the department of blood transfusion at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, said the study “showed the risk of the severity of COVID-19 infection in younger patients with underlying comorbidities were found to be relatively at higher risk of severity of disease as well as to mortality compared to elderly patients with a similar underlying condition.” 

“Patients with chronic renal disease were shown to be more susceptible to disease progression, problems, and deaths, trailed by hypertension and diabetes,” according to Dr Atul Gogia, co-author and senior consultant, department of medicine.  

“It was discovered that the inclusion of illness causes a higher probability of Hospitalization when compared with the intensity of COVID-19 contamination,” according to Dr D.S. Rana, co-author, and chair of the Department of Renal Sciences.

The study also demonstrated that comorbidities increase the probability of Hospitalization. Additionally, those with diabetes and high blood pressure had a lengthier recovery time. The risk and severity of COVID-19 infection both considerably rise with the number of comorbidities.