Abstract

GAVIRIA-SALINAS, Liliana; GONZALEZ-ZAPATA, Laura Ines; BOHORQUEZ-LARGO, Vanessa  and  ESTRADA-RESTREPO, Alejandro. Cardiometabolic Diseases and Mortality due to COVID-19 During the Pandemic's Onset in Colombia. Rev. Med [online]. 2021, vol.29, n.1, pp.11-24.  Epub Dec 31, 2021. ISSN 0121-5256.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rmed.5239.

the current scenario derived from the COVID-19 Infection caused by the virus denominated SARS-CoV-2 has uncovered the interaction between infectious diseases and chronic non-communicable diseases, thus providing findings that suggest an increase in covid-19 mortality rates. The objective of this article is to describe the sociodemographic and morbidity characteristics of deaths occurring In Colombia due to COVID-19 as at May 19,2020. This Is a descriptive study based on reports from the National Institute of Health, on deaths of positive cases due to COVID-19, from March 6 to May 19, 2020. Information on pre-existing factors was obtained from reports on the newspaper El Tiempo in press releases published on the subject. Descriptive analysis was performed in Excel and SPSS v25. 613 deaths were Identified In the period. The highest number of deaths occurred in Bogota D. C. (35.0%), followed by Valle de Cauca (10.4%), Cartagena (8.6%), Amazonas (7.2%) and Meta (5.6%). The average age of the deaths was 67.26 ± 16.28 years, with the 60-79 age group accounting for 50.7 % of the deaths. A total of 60.8 % of the deaths occurred In males, and 80.1 % had some form of morbidity: 36.2% suffered from hypertension, 19.2% from diabetes mellitus, 17.1 % EPOC, 16.5% some cardiovascular disease, 11.1 % obesity and 16.2% other type of unspecified disease. The history of morbidity due to cardiometabolic pathologies associated with dietary and nutritional factors favors mortality In persons infected by COVID-19 in Colombia.

Keywords : COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Colombia; obesity; cardiometabolic diseases; nutrition.

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