Ages and Gender Differences in Patients with COVID-19: Focus on severity of clinical characteristics

Abstract

COVID 19 viral disease caused Mild/Moderate symptoms, sometimes patients experienced dyspnea after 1 week. Severe patients progressed rapidly to Critical conditions which might be lead to death that included symptoms such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute respiratory failure. This study aimed to analysis of prevalence of COVID 19 among randomized samples to contribute in the evaluation of the prevalence and severity of COVID 19 in the society. Therefore, 90 cases (45 from Tarhuna and 45 from Tripoli) were examined. All data regarding cases of COVID 19 in different clinical classes of severity have been classified as slight moderate, and severe cases according to symptoms. The current study is showed by the chi square test that the ages exhibit highly significant prevalence COVID 19 (P= 0.01). According to the age group individuals who having severe symptoms represent 93.75% belongs to age group 61 ≤ years old, whereas age group (17 ≥years old) did not not record any case with severe symptoms, The third age group (18-35 years old), represent 7.5% as severe cases. Lastly the fourth age group (36-60 years old) cases with severe symptoms represent 26.9%, The highest cases with severe symptoms were in the age group 61 ≤ years old. According to the gender the finding in this research wasn’t significant (P= 0.05) as following, 37% of males cases have severe illness whereas just 19% of females cases have severe illness, Results showed that males who having slight, moderate, severe symptoms represent 28%, 35%, 37% respectively whereas Females who have slight, moderate, sever symptoms represent 40%, 40%, 19% respectively.