COVID-19 disease severity and associated factors among Ethiopian patients: A study of the millennium COVID-19 care center.
Tigist Workneh LeulsegedKindalem G AbebeIshmael S HassenEndalkachew H MaruWuletaw C ZewdeNegat W ChamisoKalkidan T YegeleAbdi B BayisaDagne F SiyoumMesay G EdoEdmialem G MesfinMeskerem N DerejieHelina K ShiferawPublished in: PloS one (2022)
Significant factors associated with severe COVID-19 in Ethiopia are being older than 60 years old, male, a diagnosis of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and the presence of fever and headache. This is consistent with severity indicators identified by WHO and suggests the initial finding of milder disease in Ethiopia may have been because the first people to get COVID-19 in the country were the relatively younger with fewer health problems.
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