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COVID-19 Patients With Co-Morbidities 12 Times More Prone To Death, Claims US Study
A view of patient wards in a hospital. (Unsplash/Adhy Savala)
The largest study conducted on COVID-19 patient record so far has found that those with underlying health conditions like heart diseases and diabetes are 12 times more likely to succumb to death and six times more likely to be hospitalised than normally healthy patients, reports Hindustan Times.
The study conducted by the United States (US) Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in every five patients of COVID-19 with underlying diseases died compared to just 1.6 per cent deaths among those who were healthy patients.
The study also claimed that hospitalisation was found to be significantly higher among patients with chronic diseases with as many as 45.4 per cent of such patients needing to be hospitalised. The figure for patients with no such pre-existing diseases stood at much lower 7.6 per cent.
It should be noted that in India, close to four in five people (78 per cent) diagnosed with the viral disease had underlying conditions, as per an analysis of data from first 33,050 cases which had been reported across the nation as of 30 April.
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