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ArticleRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health2021

COVID-19 related mortality in older adults: analysis of the first wave in Colombia and Mexico.

Mario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda, Santiago Campos-Fajardo, Carlos Cano-Gutierrez

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Article in Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Toward healthy aging in Latin America and the Caribbean: leaving no one behind?Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mario Ulises Pérez-ZepedaInstituto Nacional de Geriatría Mexico City Mexico Instituto Nacional de Geriatría, Mexico City, Mexico.
Santiago Campos-FajardoPontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá Colombia Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Carlos Cano-GutierrezHospital Universitario San Ignacio Bogotá Colombia Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia.
Hospital Universitario San Ignacio · COInstituto Nacional de Pediatria · MXPontificia Universidad Javeriana · CO

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe aim of this study is to describe the mortality among older adults in the first wave of COVID-19 in Colombia and Mexico.

methodsThis is an observational, prospective study on data obtained from open data sets that are publicly available on the websites of the health ministries of the respective countries. COVID-19 cases, age, sex, date to mortality, and mortality itself were analyzed with Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regressions.

resultsData on 1 779 877 individuals were analyzed, 58.2% from Mexico, with a higher frequency of men for both countries, and 11.7% were older adults. Survival curves show a continuous increase in mortality for Mexico, with higher rates for older adults, while for Colombia the mortality was observed up to 50 days of the follow-up. Finally, hazard ratios were higher for older adults in both countries. Colombia implemented a rigid curfew for older adults, and the effect on mortality is clear from the survival curves.

conclusionsThis finding shows the potential benefit that public policies could have on older adults.

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agedColombiaCOVID-19cross-cultural comparisonepidemiologyMexico

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