Overview on epidemiological and clinical manifestation of COVID-19 in Albanian adults
| Autor: | Çomo, Najada, Meta, Esmeralda, Qato, Migena, Gjermeni, Nevila, Kolovani, Entela, Pipero, Pellumb, Harxhi, Arjan, Kraja, Dhimiter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) |
| ISSN: | 2197-5248 |
| DOI: | 10.56801/seejph.vi.292 |
| Popis: | On March 9, 2020 the first two cases of Sars-Cov-2 were identified and hospitalized in Albania. In this paper we present a retrospective analysis of 3000 consecutive COVID-19 confirmed cases in Albanian adults admitted at the Infectious Diseases Service which includes three tertiary care wards, part of Tirana University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”. The period included in this analysis is from March 2020 – April 30, 2021. The paper provides a general overview including demographic distribution, symptomatic diversity and clinical signs manifested among cases, as well as the association observed with underlying pathologies. The analysis included 1944 males and 1056 females. Overall, the age groups included range from 15 to 99 years (median 65 years; mean value 63.4±13.4 years). There were no statistically significant age differences between males and females (mean ages were: 63.5±13.1 in females and 63.3±13.5 in males; median ages were: 64 years in females and 65 years in males; P=0.67). There was evidence of a statistically significant difference between sexes regarding the presence of symptoms, which were more predominant in males (P South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 4, 2022: Health status of the populations and health sector reforms in Albania and Kosovo |
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