Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Positivity in Patients Treated at the Lambayeque Regional Hospital, Peru during a Pandemic Period

• Autores: Valladares-Garrido, Mario J., Alvarez-Risco, Aldo, Rojas-Alvarado, Annel B., Zuniga-Cáceres, José A., Estrella Izarra, Naylamp A., Christopher Ichiro Peralta, Astudillo, David, Díaz-Vélez,, Cristian, Failoc Rojas, Virgilio E., Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla, Davies, Neal M., Garcia Guerra, Andrés, Yáñez, Jaime A.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener
• Repositorio: UWIENER-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uwiener.edu.pe:20.500.13053/7831
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13053/7831; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214785
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: COVID-19; coronavirus infections; mortality; positivity; Peru; death; http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.00

The aim of this study was to provide additional data on mortality from COVID-19 with particular attention to the factors associated with the positivity of patients admitted to the Lambayeque Hospital in Peru. A retrospective cohort analysis was carried out to determine the clinical-epidemiological factors associated with positivity for SARS-CoV-2 in patients treated at the Lambayeque Regional Hospital during the health emergency period in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was observed that, as the demographic age group increased, the percentage of seropositivity increased, with 66.8% of elderly adults testing positive, compared to 37.4% of children (p < 0.001). More seropositive men than women were evident (61.1% vs. 54.1%; p < 0.001). The most frequent symptom of patients with suspected COVID-19 was cough (65.0%). However, the symptoms with the greatest frequency of seropositive patients were ageusia (78.6%) and fever (77.6%); cough was one of the symptoms with the lowest (63.9%) (p-value < 0.001). The comorbidities with the most seropositive patients were obesity (80.7%) and diabetes mellitus (73.6%) (p-value < 0.001), different from the top comorbidity of heart disease (12.7%) in suspected COVID-19 patients. In terms of disease signs, abnormal findings on MRI (98.11%) and dyspnea (28.7%) were the most common in suspected COVID-19 patients, similar to those in seropositive patients, which were dyspnea (81.4%) and abnormal tomography findings (75.3%) (p-value < 0.001).