Demographic and Clinical Overview of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients during the First 17 Months of the Pandemic in Poland.
Robert FlisiakPiotr RzymskiDorota Zarębska-MichalukMagdalena RogalskaMarta RoratPiotr CzuprynaBeata LorencPrzemysław CiechanowskiDorota KozielewiczAnna PiekarskaMaria Pokorska-ŚpiewakKatarzyna SikorskaMagdalena TudrujekBeata BolewskaGrzegorz AngielskiJustyna Dominika KowalskaRegina PodlasinWłodzimierz MazurBarbara Oczko-GrzesikIzabela ZaleskaAleksandra SzymczakPaulina Frańczak-ChmuraMałgorzata Sobolewska-PilarczykKrzysztof KłosMagdalena FiglerowiczPiotr LeszczyńskiIzabela KucharekHubert GrabowskiPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)
Long-term analyses of demographical and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients can provide a better overview of the clinical course of the disease. They can also help understand whether changes in infection symptomatology, disease severity, and outcome occur over time. We aimed to analyze the demographics, early symptoms of infection, laboratory parameters, and clinical manifestation of COVID-19 patients hospitalized during the first 17 months of the pandemic in Poland (March 2020-June 2021). The patients' demographical and clinical data ( n = 5199) were extracted from the national SARSTer database encompassing 30 medical centers in Poland and statistically assessed. Patients aged 50-64 were most commonly hospitalized due to COVID-19 regardless of the pandemic period. There was no shift in the age of admitted patients and patients who died throughout the studied period. Men had higher C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 levels and required oxygenation and mechanical ventilation more often. No gender difference in fatality rate was seen, although the age of males who died was significantly lower. A share of patients with baseline SpO 2 < 91%, presenting respiratory, systemic and gastrointestinal symptoms was higher in the later phase of a pandemic than in the first three months. Cough, dyspnea and fever were more often presented in men, while women had a higher frequency of anosmia, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. This study shows some shifts in SARS-CoV-2 pathogenicity between March 2020 and July 2021 in the Polish cohort of hospitalized patients and documents various gender-differences in this regard. The results represent a reference point for further analyses conducted under the dominance of different SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Keyphrases
- sars cov
- coronavirus disease
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- mechanical ventilation
- prognostic factors
- escherichia coli
- emergency department
- mental health
- machine learning
- type diabetes
- gene expression
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- patient reported
- palliative care
- clostridium difficile
- breast cancer risk