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Vulnerability to COVID-19 in older adults with cardiovascular disease

Luis Alcides Vázquez-González, Miguel Miguel-Betancourt, Miguel Angel Machado-Rojas, Leidys Torres-Velázquez, Liz Mary Álvarez-Pupo, Abel Pantoja-Hernández

Article ID: 1906
Vol 3, Issue 2, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/ccr.v3i2.1906
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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.

Keywords

severe acute respiratory syndrome; elderly; cardiovascular diseases; risk factors

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