Condições de saúde, taxa de incidência e letalidade da COVID-19 em idosos institucionalizados após primeiro ano da pandemia em Maceió-AL

Abstract

Introduction: SARS-1-transformability rapidly around the world, causing coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), with associated high rate of change in epidemiological and family profile, many families send their children to reside in ILPI. In general, aged 60 or comorb aged 60 or comorb developed diseases, being considered more prone to coronavirus. Objective: To identify the sociodemographic, clinical and nutritional profile as a disability and lethality rate by COVID-19 in the elderly in Long Stay Institutions for the Elderly in the city of Maceió - Alagoas. Methodology: Observational, prospective cohort study, carried out from April 2020 to April 2021 in the city of Maceió - Alagoas. To verify the association between the frequency of categorical variables among the elderly with and without the diagnosis of COVID-19, Pearson's chi-square or Fisher's exact test was tried. The rate among cases in which the family number of the ratio-19 was assigned, the new cases of family of institutionalized elderly of 100 by the number of adjusted children of institutionalized elderly for 10 years, was for the family rate of number 10 of age, for the family income rate of the age number, for the family income rate of the age number Surveys a disease by discharge and the number of elderly people - 1 who were diagnosed positive for COVID-19, multiplied by 100. Results: To observe a disease, in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maceió, where out of 100 elderly residents in ILPI, approximately 31 tested positive, while lethality we identified a rate of 6.56%, with the elderly male representing the number of deaths (62.5%), this data reinforce the results presented by other researchers in which the diagnostic diagnosis of diabetes is associated with death, male sex, age with low education and BMI are associated with the occurrence of the disease. Conclusion: The findings of the present study may contribute to the development or deviation of strategies to reduce the COVID19 pandemic to reduce the COVID19 disease pandemic and reduce the number of public health in this group to reduce complications and mortality in this age group.