The Biopsychological Indicators of Age Significantly Influence the Severity of COVID-19

Abstract

Objective. To study the effect of biopsychological age indicators on the likelihood and severity of COVID-19 disease in adults in 2020. We have examined 447 people aged 35–70 years using methods for assessing biological and psychological age in terms of health indicators and subjective psychological age. Results. The number of cases at the end of 2020 in the group of working adults was 31%, in the risk group 0%; representatives of the risk group complied with the quarantine requirements 1.75 times stricter. Indicators of biopsychological age affected the development of the disease in working adults. The relative biological age of an individual had a direct impact on the risk of infection (p < 0.05), and on the probability of the patient’s death (p < 0.001). The relative psychological age had an inverse effect on the risk of infection at the tendency level (p = 0.06) and the death risk of those infected, (p < 0.001). Calendar age increases the risk of infection and the risk of death at the trend level. Conclusions. Indicators of relative biological and psychological aging of an individual affect the frequency and severity of the disease, while the combination of high indicators of biological age and underestimated psychological age dangerously increases the likelihood of developing severe forms of the disease.

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