Underlying comorbidities in Covid-19 related deaths by age group in Colombia
Comorbilidades de los fallecidos por COVID-19 según el grupo etario en Colombia
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Introduction: The emerging COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus represents a global health crisis which causes serious illness and death, predominantly in patients with underlying cardiovascular and metabolic anomalies. Objective: to conduct a statistical analysis of the underlying comorbidities in patients who died from COVID-19 and its distribution by age group in Colombia. Methodology: we worked on two research hypotheses. A one-factor ANOVA test was applied for the hypotheses and analyzed in the SPSS v 25.0 statistical package. Results: the significance level was 0.000, which is less than α= 0.05, therefore, the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted, which means there are differences in the average scores obtained in COVID-19-related deaths for a specific comorbidity and its distribution by age group in Colombia. Conclusion: It was determined that the most frequent comorbidity was HT (hypertension) in 5.861 cases and the most vulnerable group was the 70-79 age group; the following underlying comorbidity was DM (diabetes mellitus) in 3.589 cases, the 60-69 age group being the most vulnerable; and respiratory diseases in 2.280 cases.
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