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 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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