Gender Differences in COVID-19 Deceased Cases in Jahrom City, South of Iran
| Autor: | Fatemeh Rahmanian, Naser Hatami, Marzieh Haghbeen, Rahim Raofi, Alireza Abbasi, Heshmatollah Shakeri, Poyan Keshavarz, Elham Rafiee, Mahdi Chegin, Esmaeel Rayad doost, Samaneh Abiri, Navid Kalani, Mahdi Foroughian, Mohsen Ebrahimi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma, Vol 9, Iss 2, Pp 80-85 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2322-2522 2322-3960 |
| DOI: | 10.30476/beat.2021.89206 |
| Popis: | Objective: To evaluate the clinical and epidemiological features of deceased patients and comparing the discrepancies between male and female patients based on high prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), its irreversible effects and the rising mortality rate in Jahrom city. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical retrospective study that was conducted from the beginning of March 2020 to the end of November 2020. The study population were included all patients with COVID-19 who admitted to Peymaniyeh Hospital in Jahrom and died of COVID-19. Clinical and demographic data were collected from medical records and analyzed by SPSS software. Results: In this study, 61 patients (57.54%) were men and 45 patients (42.36%) were women. The mean age was 68.7±18.33 in men and 68.82±14.24 in women. The mean hospitalization length was 9.69±7.75 days in men and 9.69±7.75 days in women patients. There was no statistically significant difference between men and women patients (p>0.05). The results showed that 17 (27.87%) men and 28 (45.9%) of women patients had hypertension and the prevalence of this disease was significantly higher in women than men (p=0.01). In this study, 7 (11.48%) men and 13 (21.31%) women had hyperlipidemia. The frequency of hyperlipidemia in women caseswas significantly higher than in men patients (p=0.024). Men cases’ diastolic blood pressure (mean=77.53) was significantly higher than women’s diastolic blood pressure at the same time with a mean of 71.42 (p |
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