A clinical-statistical study on COVID-19 infection and death status at the Alshifaa Healthcare Center/ Baghdad

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 is an ongoing disease that caused, and still causes, many challenges for humanity. In fact, COVID-19 death cases reached more than 4.5 million by the end of August 2021, although an improvement in the medical treatments and pharmaceutical protocols was obtained, and many vaccines were released. Objective: To, statistically, analyze the data of COVID-19 patients at Alshifaa Healthcare Center (Baghdad, Iraq). Methods: In this work, a statistical analysis was conducted on data included the total number, positive cases, and negative cases of people tested for COVID-19 at the Alshifaa Healthcare Center/Baghdad for the period 1 September – 31 December 2020. The number of people who got the test was 1080, where 424 were infected and the rest of them were not. Results: The study showed that males’ infection and death cases were higher than females by more than double, despite the population ratios of the two genders being almost equal. Furthermore, as the age of patients is older, the chance of death is higher. Death cases were lower in December than the previous three months, which could be attributed to lower infection cases compared with the previous months. Conclusions: We can conclude that the peak of infected ages was the same as the other countries. Hence, the number of checked children was low, while we have the peak around the 40s and 50s. Females’ death cases were much less than males, which could be attributed to the genetic influence and the higher responsibility that females showed than males to prevent the disease’s spreading.

Health status of COVID-19 cases at health facilities of Baghdad Alkarkh health directorate from 1st March 2020 to 31st March 2023 retrospective study

“…Figure 3 shows the prevalent clinical presentation of cases in our study (85%) fever, (75%) headache. According to the study of (Sadie et al, 2021) [17] , cough (63.5%), fever (50%), respiratory distress (46.1%), and muscular pain (40.8%) were the most common symptoms. In the study of Yousef et al, 2022) [15] explain that most common: cough (63%), fever (50%), respiratory distress (46%), and muscular pain (40.8%).…”

“…43% of patients were female and 57% were male. As shown in figures ( 6) and ( 7), males had a greater infection and death rate than females, and older patients had a higher mortality rate (Rasha et al, 2021). [17] .…”

“…As shown in figures ( 6) and ( 7), males had a greater infection and death rate than females, and older patients had a higher mortality rate (Rasha et al, 2021). [17] . The study of (Sadie et al, 2021) [18] The Impact of Age, Sex, and Race on the Association of Risk Factors and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients found that patients with diabetes, hypertension, and renal disease have a higher mortality risk.…”

Thematic evolution of coronavirus disease: a longitudinal co-word analysis

“…, 2020). The origin of the virus has not been discovered yet, but it might have been transmitted from animals to humans (Raheem et al. , 2021b).…”

“…The disease was called COVID-19 upon the recommendation of the WHO (Sarda et al, 2020). The origin of the virus has not been discovered yet, but it might have been transmitted from animals to humans (Raheem et al, 2021b). It caused the so-called "coronacrisis," a global crisis event massive in size and force (Sakwa, 2021).…”