The effect of cardiovascular risk factors on the final outcome in patients with COVID-19

Abstract

Background Increased cardiovascular risk factors are associated with adverse outcome in patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). In this study, the authors assessed the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in patients with COVID-19 and studied the impact of these cardiovascular risk factors on the final outcome in these patients. Aim The authors aimed to study the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in patients with COVID-19 as well as the impact of these cardiovascular risk factors on the final outcome in these patients. Patients and methods The study included 200 patients who were admitted in Al-Sahel teaching hospital with COVID- 19-positive PCR. These patients have at least one of these cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, obesity, and smoking). Results Bad outcome was associated with the presence of multiple cardiovascular risk factors and the most common cardiovascular risk factors were hypertension and diabetes mellitus. There were 121 hypertensive patients (60.5%), 98 diabetic patients (49.0%), 106 patients were smokers (53.0%), and 54 obese patients (27.0%) and 42 patients (21.0%) had dyslipidemia. In total, 181 patients survived (90.5%), while 19 patients (9.5%) died among patients with COVID-19. Conclusions The presence of cardiovascular risk factors, especially hypertension and diabetes mellitus, is associated with bad outcome in patients with COVID-19.

Keywords

• covid
• d.m
• ldl