They called them fragile, but within this so generic category there are various conditions, pathologies, which expose much more to the risk of mortality if you contract Covid. These conditions are classified in an ISS report updated to 21 July 2021. It is the famous pre-existing pathologies, the comorbidities that appear in the lists and forms to be filled out in many situations (during vaccination for example) that help to understand who reads those forms how much you risk, in fact. How much, that is, one is “fragile” and therefore how much it is it is necessary to activate protection barriers such as vaccination. In the 127 thousand cases of deceased patients and positive to SARS-CoV-2 in Italy registered by the health system and then by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), conditions appear for which, it is inevitable, the risk increases. The first is thehypertension, commonly known as high pressure. This condition affects about 30% of the adult population of both genders and is more common in women after menopause. But there are also patients who have the diabetes and those who suffer one ischemic heart disease. They are also high risk factorsobesity but also theacute renal failure. It turned out to be extremely risky, especially for women in almost double the percentage of men dementia. We knew it even before, it’s true, it was found in hospitals, but now precise numbers are arriving to certify it.
Numbers and characteristics of deceased patients
Meanwhile, some numbers on deaths: the average age of patients who died and positive for SARS-CoV-2 is 80 years. 55,247 women died (43.5%). Women who died after contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection are older than men (median age: women 85 – men 80). Only in the age group of 90 years or older does the number of female deaths exceed those of male sex. This data is related to the fact that the population aged 90 or over in Italy is made up of approximately 72% of women. The average age of deaths began to drop as the vaccination campaign progressed. He reached 74 years of age in the 1st week of July 2021 and 72 years of age in the 2nd week of July 2021. This reduction in the average age of deaths is likely a consequence of the protective effect of vaccinations in the older population which was given priority. Here is the graph below that shows it.
What do you die of: why Covid is still dangerous
Those who died after contracting Covid faced complications that paved the way for death. The ISS, and the statistical data it has elaborated, tell us that therespiratory failure was the most commonly reported complication in the sample of deceased for which medical records were analyzed (93.6%), followed by acute kidney damage (24,7%), superinfection (19,9%) e acute myocardial damage (10.2%). Myocarditis is, in fact, one of the most frequent complications if you contract Covid.
Even those under the age of 50 are exposed to mortal risk
As of July 21, 2021, 1,479 of the 127,044 (1.2%) deceased patients were positive and were under the age of 50. Specifically, 355 of these had less than 40 years old (221 men and 134 women aged between 0 and 39). No clinical information is available from 105 patients under 40 years of age; of the others, 206 featured severe pre-existing diseases (cardiovascular, renal, psychiatric diseases, diabetes, obesity) and 44 had no major diagnoses.
The riskiest pathologies
Here are the diseases that already undermine, or have undermined, the health of patients but which increase the mortality risk in those who contract Covid. They are ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, stroke, arterial hypertension, dementia. The older the age, the more risky these conditions are.
Always according to the death report, on the other hand, they decrease with advancing age, the prevalence of chronic liver disease, from the pathologies for which dialysis is necessary, di iHIV infection and of obesity.
This is the table that relates mortality, age group and pathologies.
For those suffering from diabetes, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) e tumor there is a decrease only in the last age group in contrast to the general growth with age.
Per autoimmune diseaseson the contrary, there is an increase only in the last age group in contrast to the decrease with age.
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