TO EVALUATE THE RECOVERY PATTERNS IN COVID-19 POSITIVE PATIENTS WITH RESPECT TO SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE AND CO-MORBIDITIES IN NORTHWEST ZONE OF RAJASTHAN
*Dr. Anil Kumar K. R., Dr. Manoj Mali, Dr. Surender Kumar, Dr. Harsh Gupta, Dr. Harish Arya,
Dr. Imran Ali, Dr. Jangir Ravindra and Dr. Anil Kumar Samariya
ABSTRACT
The new coronavirus, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The resources of some of the largest economies are stressed out due to the large infectivity and transmissibility of this disease. Risk factors associated with this disease are age, sex, and the presence of co-morbidities, the most common being hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. This study was undertaken to evaluate the recovery patterns in COVID-19 positive Patients with respect to Socio-demographic profile and co- morbidities. This is a cross-sectional study, done at the Department of medicine SP Medical College, Bikaner, Rajasthan. 220 COVID 19 positive patients were part of the study out of which 134 (61%) were male. The average age was only 34years. Out of them 45 patients had one or more co-morbidities, hypertension being the commonest. The mean duration of stay of recovered patients was 11.2 days, where as slight longer duration 12.7days of stay in patient with comorbidites. Longest duration of stay for patient with both Hypertension and type 2 Diabetes mellitus. The early diagnosis of COVID- 19 cases in patient with co-morbidities will help physician to treat them optimally.
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