Covid, Medical Statistical Society: “Health inequalities exacerbated by pandemic”

(beraking latest news) – “As far as health inequalities are concerned, the pandemic has certainly exacerbated them but there is still a lack of a shared and centrally harmonized database that allows us to study the clinical histories of patients. Fundamental is the “Data-Integration”, the set of actions necessary to unify information sources, to build the risk profiles of all patients and understand what are the inequalities also with respect to the Covid pathology, inequalities between men and women not only from a strictly clinical point of view but also from a pharmacological point of view, because we know that gender medicine involves health across the board, starting also from the pharmacological response “. Annarita Vestri, president of the Italian Society of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology, which takes stock of the risk profile of Covid patients, says this to beraking latest news Salute.

“Unfortunately – affirms Vestri – we do not have large Italian studies supporting the differences between morbidity and mortality due to Covid-19 between men and women. If anything, we are in possession of some fragmentary data but not with such important numbers that, instead, would allow us a better management of the patient and a greater understanding of the pathology and that would allow us to profile scenarios for the NHS “. Therefore, Vestri concludes, “to be able to make small predictions on what may happen in the near future”.