Assessment of hypertension and other factors associated with the severity of disease in COVID-19 pneumonia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A case-control study.
Andargew Yohannes AshamoAbebaw Bekele SeyoumAdane PetroseTsegaye GebreyesEyob Kebede EtissaAmsalu BekeleDeborah HaischNeil W SchlugerHanan YusufTewodros Haile GebremariamNegussie DeyessaDawit KebedePublished in: PloS one (2022)
Hypertension was associated with the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia, and so were diabetes mellitus, chronic cardiac disease, and an increase in pulse rate.