Chronic noncommunicable diseases aggravate hospitalizations and deaths from covid-19

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the association of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) with cases of hospitalizations and deaths due to covid-19. It is a cross-sectional, analytical study, with a quantitative approach of secondary data, collected in the Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System, linked to the Ministry of Health - Brazil. The variable “covid-19” was selected from the database, along with sociodemographic information (gender, race/color, age group and education) and clinical information (comorbidities, type of ventilatory support used, ICU bed stay, case evolution for death or cure), of patients with reported cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the year 2020, in the city of Campo Grande/MS. 5152 notifications of SARS due to covid-19 were identified, accounting for 60.6% of hospitalizations in the year 2020 and, of these, 64.2% associated with comorbidities. Kidney diseases were the ones that presented the highest relative risk for the need for hospitalization in an ICU bed and evolution to death. The presence of comorbidities, represented mostly by CNCDs, were related to the greater severity of hospitalizations due to covid-19.