COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more people under the age of 50 than of those above 65 years, showed a new study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, reported news agency ANI.
The single-center retrospective study, authored by AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria, chief of the AIIMS trauma center Dr Rajesh Malhotra and several others, published in the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine. The assessment primarily dealt with the deaths of COVID-19 adult patients who were admitted between April 4 and July 24, 2020, reported news agency ANI.
The AIIMS study was conducted to describe the clinic epidemiological feature as well as find out the causes of mortality in patients admitted to dedicated COVID-19 centers in India, said the report.
During the study, a total of 654 adult patients were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Of these, 247 died, showing a mortality rate of 37.7 percent (247 out of 654).
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The adult patients were further divided into several age groups to compare their clinical characteristics and outcomes -- 18 to 50, 51 to 65, and above 65. The study result showed 42.1 percent of the deaths were among the age group 18-50 years, 34.8 percent in 51-65, and 23.1 percent among those above 65.
The most common aspects in most of these deceased COVID-19 patients include hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney diseases along with the most common presenting features being fever, cough, and shortness of breath.
This data of all the deceased patients were collected from their electronic medical report, patients' daily progress charts, as well as nursing notes in the ICU, said the report.
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The report further said that ICU mortality among COVID-19 patients varies between 8.0 percent and 66.7 percent in different studies. "In our center, however, the hospital mortality was 18.2 pc and ICU mortality was 36.1 percent," said the report citing the study.
Several other countries, such as the United States, Spain, and Italy have also reported similar mortality rates, it said.
The study further recorded the deaths of Pediatric admitted during the period. The data showed that out of 46 admitted pediatric patients, six died of novel coronavirus infection. With this, the ICU mortality among the Pediatric group was 13 percent, the study suggested.
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India has so far registered 3,97,637 deaths due to COVID-19 disease, according to the union health ministry’s data updated on June 29.
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