ReviewSaudi medical journal2020
Comorbidities and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 patients.
Review in Saudi medical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Correlation Between Prakriti (Body Constitution) and Severity of Structural Alterations in the Lungs of Patients With SARS-CoV-2: Protocol for a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Kidney Function Tests and Continuous eGFR Decrease at Six Months after SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients Clinically Diagnosed with Post-COVID Syndrome.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Integration of functional capacity to medically necessary, time-sensitive scoring system: A prospective observational study.Saudi medical journal · 2023Observational
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- Multiomics integration-based molecular characterizations of COVID-19.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2022Review
- COVID-19 and chronic kidney disease: an updated overview of reviews.Journal of nephrology · 2022Review
- Demographics, comorbidities, and outcomes among young and middle-aged COVID-19 patients in Saudi Arabia.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2021Article
- General practice attendances among patients attending a post-COVID-19 clinic: a pilot study.BJGP open · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the association between comorbidities and the severity of the disease among COVID-19 patients.
methodsWe searched the Cochrane, Medline, Trip, and EMBASE databases from 2019. The review included all available studies of COVID-19 patients published in the English language and studied the clinical characteristics, comorbidities, and disease outcomes from the beginning of the pandemic. Two authors extracted studies characteristics and the risk of bias. Odds ratio (OR) was used to analyze the data with 95% confidence interval (CI).
resultsThe review included 1,885 COVID-19 patients from 7 observational studies with some degree of bias risk and substantial heterogeneity. A significant association was recorded between COVID-19 severity and the following variables: male (OR= 1.60, 95%CI= 1.05 - 2.43); current smoker (OR=2.06, 95%CI= 1.08 - 3.94); and the presence of comorbidities including hypertension (OR=2.05, 95%CI= 1.56 - 2.70), diabetes (OR=2.46, 95%CI= 1.53 - 3.96), coronary heart disease (OR=4.10, 95%CI= 2.36 - 7.12), chronic kidney disease (OR=4.06, 95%CI= 1.45 - 11.35), and cancer (OR=2.28, 95%CI= 1.08 - 4.81).
conclusionsComorbidities among COVID-19 patients may contribute to increasing their susceptibility to severe illness. The identification of these potential risk factors could help reduce mortality by identifying patients with poor prognosis at an early stage.
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