American researchers analyzed data on patients hospitalized with coronavirus in Chicago, and defined the category most prone to severe form of the disease are elderly men with marked obesity.
On information familiar with the research publication “ridus”, more than a quarter of patients with the coronavirus fell on a ventilator, and one in seven intubated patients died.
Vulnerable populations that are at risk of more severe clinical course associated with COVID-19 — as a rule, pensioners, men and men with obesity, the report says.
The researchers studied the course of the disease 564 of Americans said that diseases of the heart and kidneys especially not affect the current COVID-19.
Wrote NEWS.ru not less than 4.9 million people became newly infected with the coronavirus in the nearly six months that have passed since the appearance of the first patients in the Chinese city of Wuhan. More than 320 thousand infected.
