ArticlePloS one2020
Non-communicable diseases and inequalities increase risk of death among COVID-19 patients in Mexico.
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- Associations of diabetes, hypertension and obesity with COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2023Pooled it
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- Short-term acute outcomes by clinical and socioeconomic characteristics in adults with SARS-CoV-2: a population-based cohort study focused on the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
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- Estimating the effect of realistic improvements of metformin adherence on COVID-19 mortality using targeted machine learning.Global epidemiology · 2024Article
- Gender disparities in lost productivity resulting from non-communicable diseases in Mexico, 2005-2021.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Significant association between asthma and a lower risk of mortality among COVID-19 patients in Spain: A meta-analysis.Qatar medical journal · 2024Review
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- COVID-19 infection and mortality among non-pregnant indigenous adults in Mexico 2020-2022: Impact of marginalisation.Journal of global health · 2023Article
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- Family caregivers as essential partners in care: examining the impacts of restrictive acute care visiting policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Lethality risk markers by sex and age-group for COVID-19 in Mexico: a cross-sectional study based on machine learning approach.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
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- Socioeconomic inequality in hospital case fatality rate and care among children and adolescents hospitalized for COVID-19 in Brazil.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Diabetes-Related Excess Mortality in Mexico: A Comparative Analysis of National Death Registries Between 2017-2019 and 2020.Diabetes care · 2022Article
- A year and a half into the pandemic in Mexico: evidence of differences in COVID-19 mortality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations continues to accumulate.AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe SARS-CoV-2 pandemic compounds Mexico's pre-existing challenges: very high levels of both non-communicable diseases (NCD) and social inequity. METHODS AND
findingsUsing data from national reporting of SARS-CoV-2 tested individuals, we estimated odds of hospitalization, intubation, and death based on pre-existing non-communicable diseases and socioeconomic indicators. We found that obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are positively associated with the three outcomes in a synergistic manner. The municipal poverty level is also positively associated with hospitalization and death.
conclusionsMexico's response to COVID-19 is complicated by a synergistic double challenge: raging NCDs and extreme social inequity. The response to the current pandemic must take both into account both to be effective and to ensure that the burden of COVID-19 not falls disproportionately on those who are already disadvantaged.
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