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Original Article

Clinico-Demographic, Hematological, and Comorbidity Profile of COVID-19 Patients Admitted at Tertiary Care Center

Hemant Kumar, Sumeet Dixit, Shobhit Shakya, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Nikhil Gupta, Preeti Gupta, Shyam Murari Kalra, Amiya Pandey

Keywords : Clinico-demographical, comorbidity, coronavirus disease 2019, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Citation Information : Kumar H, Dixit S, Shakya S, Pandey MK, Gupta N, Gupta P, Kalra SM, Pandey A. Clinico-Demographic, Hematological, and Comorbidity Profile of COVID-19 Patients Admitted at Tertiary Care Center. Indian J Respir Care 2021; 10 (2):213-215.

DOI: 10.4103/ijrc.ijrc_3_21

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Published Online: 06-12-2022

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2021; Indian Journal of Respiratory Care.


Abstract

Introduction: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has caused a worldwide pandemic. This study was aimed to describe the clinico-demographic, hematological, and comorbidity profile in a group of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients at a tertiary care center in north India. Materials and Methods: We conducted a prospective, single-center collection of data regarding clinico-epidemiological, hematological parameters, and comorbidity profile of COVID-19 patients admitted at a tertiary care facility. Results: Data from 200 patients with COVID-19 were collected and analyzed. The median age of the patients was 48 years, with 63% males, and 78% patients were from urban area. Ten patients were smokers while 11 patients were alcoholic. The occupation of 20.6% of patients was related directly or indirectly with medical or allied professions. The most common mode of transmission of COVID-19 was direct close contact with microbiologically confirmed patients. Fever (n = 93; 46.5%) was the most common presenting symptom and the median duration of onset of symptoms before admission were 3.5 days (range 2–6 days). In hematological profile, lymphopenia (n = 48; 24%) had been the most common documented finding. Comorbidities were present in 39 (19.5%) patients, of which diabetes mellitus (n = 25; 12.5%) was the most common. Furthermore, the case fatality rate in our study was 1.5%. Conclusion: Among all patients of COVID-19 at our center, the characteristic findings included high proportion of male patients with younger to middle-age group, diabetes as most common comorbidity and people who were directly or indirectly in contact with the health-care system were more prone for developing the disease.


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