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The study aims to provide the epidemiological characteristics of the COVID-19 patients who admitted to Shahid Dr Hemin Teaching Hospital in Sulaimani city, Iraq. It is a cross-sectional study, the data were collected by a convenience sampling method in the hospital, which started from 2nd October to 31th of December 2020. The current study included all the patients who admitted to the hospital, which involved 371 patients. The data were collected from patient’s medical record and a direct interview method was used for filling in the questionnaire form. The collected data were analysed by the SPSS program to produce descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation while Chi-square test used to find out the association between variables with considering a p-value ≤ 0.05 as a significant interpretation. The results show that the age of hospitalized COVID-19 patients ranges from 19-95 years old with mean of (63.69±12.73). The age of majority of patients 159 (42.9%) was between 65-79 years old followed by 50-64 years old 124 (33.4%). Male to female ratio was 2:1. Most of the patients were retired 119 (32.1%) in comparison to other occupations and illiterate patients 151(40.7%) were dominance over other patient’s education levels. In addition, majority of patients had hypertension 278(74.9%), diabetes 132 (35.6%) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) 130 (35.0%) and 230 (62.0%) and 141(38.0%) of them were in severe and moderate stage of disease respectively. Also, there was a significant association between the patient’s age group and patients’ outcome while for gender, occupation, and education level, stage of the disease, there were non-significant. The presence of CVD, hypertension and diabetes increase the mortality rate among the patients. In conclusion, age of COVID-19 patient has a great impact on increasing mortality rate and the presence of comorbidities among the patients significantly raise the mortality rate of COVID-19.
该研究旨在提供入住伊拉克苏莱曼尼市Shahid Dr Hemin教学医院的新冠肺炎患者的流行病学特征。这是一项横断面研究,数据是从2020年10月2日至12月31日在医院通过方便抽样方法收集的。目前的研究包括了所有入院的患者,共涉及371名患者。数据收集自患者病历,采用直接访谈法填写调查表。收集的数据通过SPSS程序进行分析,产生频率、百分比、,平均值和标准差,而卡方检验用于找出变量之间的关联,并将p值≤0.05视为一种显著的解释。结果显示,新冠肺炎住院患者的年龄在19-95岁之间,平均为(63.69±12.73)。大多数患者159(42.9%)的年龄在65-79岁之间,其次是50-64岁的124(33.4%)。男女比例为2:1。与其他职业相比,大多数患者为退休患者119人(32.1%),文盲患者151人(40.7%)的受教育程度高于其他患者。此外,大多数患者患有高血压278例(74.9%)、糖尿病132例(35.6%)和心血管疾病130例(35.0%),其中230例(62.0%)和141例(38.0%)分别处于严重和中度疾病阶段。此外,患者的年龄组与患者的预后之间存在显著关联,而对于性别、职业、教育水平、疾病阶段,则没有显著关联。心血管疾病、高血压和糖尿病的存在增加了患者的死亡率。总之,新冠肺炎患者的年龄对死亡率的增加有很大影响,患者中合并症的存在显著提高了新冠肺炎的死亡率。