CLINICAL AND SUBCLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 TREATED IN MILITARY HOSPITAL 103

Thị Đào Ngọ1,, Văn Nam Lê2
1 Military Hospital 354
2 Military Hospital 103

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Objectives: To describe clinical and subclinical characteristics in older patients with COVID-19 treated in Military Hospital 103. Subjects and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study on 283 patients with COVID-19 treated in Military Hospital 103. Results: The average age of the patients is 74,68±9,00. Male/Female Ratio: 4,05/1. Most patients had comorbidities (81,98%). The most common systemic symptom is dry fever (63.96%), followy by cough (65.08%), sputum ( 43.65%) and fatigue (56.54%). 28.35% of patients with anemia. 26.90% of patients had white blood cell count > 10 G/L. The majority of patients (65.94%) had elevated serum CRP levels. Lung lesions on chest X-ray image were quite common (52.38%). Conclusions: Most older patients with COVID-19 had comorbidities, with common clinical symptoms being fever, cough, and fatigue. Laboratory tests are less variable, more than 50% of cases have lung lesions on chest X-ray image.

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