[Epidemiological characteristics of workers with COVID-19 from the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social].

Autor: Pedraza-Zárate MÁ; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Órgano de Operación Administrativa Desconcentrada Estatal Veracruz Norte, Coordinación de Nutrición. Xalapa, Veracruz, México., Guillén-Salomón E; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Órgano de Operación Administrativa Desconcentrada Estatal Veracruz Norte, Coordinación de Planeación y Enlace Institucional. Xalapa, Veracruz, México., Aranda-Trejo R; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Unidad de Medicina Familiar No. 61, Servicio de Medicina Familiar. Veracruz, Veracruz, México., Ladrón de Guevara-Marín K; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Hospital General de Zona No. 11, Servicio de Urgencias. Xalapa, Veracruz, México., Gutierrez-Márquez JG; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Órgano de Operación Administrativa Desconcentrada Estatal Veracruz Norte, Coordinación de Prevención y Atención a la Salud. Xalapa, Veracruz, México., Zaragoza-Ruíz I; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Órgano de Operación Administrativa Desconcentrada Estatal Veracruz Norte, Jefatura de Prestaciones Médicas. Xalapa, Veracruz, México., Carranza-Bernal ML; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Órgano de Operación Administrativa Desconcentrada Estatal Veracruz Norte. Xalapa, Veracruz, México.
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social [Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc] 2022 Feb 01; Vol. 60 (1), pp. 40-43. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Feb 01.
Abstrakt: Background: ¿In December 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused an outbreak of the respiratory disease called COVID-19, in Wuhan, China. At the end of February 2020, it was detected in Mexico the first case of COVID-19. With this disease, chronic degenerative diseases are decisive for comorbidity to continue increasing.
Objective: To know the epidemiological characteristics and comorbidity in workers sick with COVID-19 from the Veracruz Norte Regional Deconcentrated Administrative Operation Body, from the Mexican Institute for Social Security (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS).
Material and Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study, which included 228 COVID-19 patients, who were IMSS workers. Variables such as age, gender, as well as medical unit, contractual category, comorbidities, etc., were analyzed and were taken from April to June 2020 from the Online Notification System for Epidemiological Surveillance (SINOLAVE) database. It was used descriptive statistics, and Pearson's chi-squared, with a p < 0.05.
Results: 228 patients were analyzed. The nursing staff was the one with the highest prevalence with 101 patients (44.3%). Comorbidities such as obesity in the foreground, with 27 patients (11.8%), and diabetes mellitus alone with 15 patients (6.6%), and as a group, along with arterial hypertension, obesity and being a chronic smoker in 22 patients (9.6%) were the most frequent.
Conclusions: The nursing staff predominated; the prevalent comorbidities were obesity, diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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