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Vulnerability to COVID-19 in older adults with cardiovascular disease
Vol 3, Issue 2, 2022
Issue release: 31 December 2022
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Abstract
Introduction: The identification of vulnerable population groups through active screening aims to prevent infection through different measures or interventions. Objective: To characterize COVID-19 vulnerable older adults with a personal history of cardiovascular disease. Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in the Family Medical Clinic 3 of the University Polyclinic “Manuel Piti Fajardo Rivero” in the province of Las Tunas from March to July 2020. The universe consisted of 90 older adults with a personal pathological history of cardiovascular disease aged 65 years or older, working with all of them. Results: Female sex was predominant (70%) and the age group from 65 to 70 (35.6%). According to personal pathological history, 100% of the older adults were hypertensive, and 70% presented cardiovascular diseases other than arterial hypertension. Eighty-five point seven percent of the patients maintained regular therapeutic adherence to the treatments for the underlying diseases. Sixty percent of the patients were compensated during the study period. Conclusions: The vulnerable older adults with a history of cardiovascular disease were mainly women. Arterial hypertension was shown to be the main cardiovascular history. Regular therapeutic adherence and compensation of the baseline disease was common in patients.
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