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SN Compr Clin Med. 2020 Nov 18;1-12. doi: 10.1007/s42399-020-00645-x. Epub 2020 Nov 18.

Effects of Comorbid Factors on Prognosis of Three Different Geriatric Groups with COVID-19 Diagnosis.

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Özkan Görgülü, Murat Duyan

Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Varl?k Mh. Kaz?m Karabekir Cd, 07100 Antalya, Turkey.
  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.

PMID: 33225222 PMCID: PMC7671936 DOI: 10.1007/s42399-020-00645-x

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new zoonotic infectious disease that was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019, and declared as a pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020. Due to the increased incidence of multimorbidity in geriatric age groups, COVID-19 disease leads to more severe consequences in the elderly. We aimed to determine the effects of age, comorbidity factors, symptoms, laboratory findings, and radiological results on prognosis by dividing our patients into 3 different geriatric age groups, using a retrospective descriptive analysis method. Patients included in the retrospective study (

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Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Death; Geriatrics; Intensive care units; Prognosis; Real-time polymerase chain reaction; SARS-CoV-2; Tomography

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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