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[Clinical and epidemiological characteristic of COVID-19 deaths in Mali]
Bourahima Koné1, Assétou Youssouf Dembélé1, Souleymane Sekou Diarra2,3
1Direction Générale de la Santé et de l'Hygiène Publique, Ministère de la Santé et des Affaires Sociales, Mali.
Introduction:
Mali recorded its first COVID-19's death related case on March 26, 2020. The aim of this study was to evaluate the comorbidity of COVID-19's death related cases in the Malian context.
Method:
A cross-sectional study was conducted between March 25 and October 11, 2020. Community death information was analyzed from the patient descriptive list, and from the hospitalization registry of the treatment sites.
Result:
Of the 3,286 COVID-19 confirmed cases, 132 died making a lethality rate of 4.00% (132/3286). Men were the most represented with 75.76% (100/132). The mean age was 63.77 ± 15.25 years. The mean time of hospital stay was 4.50 days ± 6.35. Diabetes and cardiovascular disease remain the most frequent comorbidities with death patients with 20.45% and 17.42%, respectively.
Conclusion:
The results of this study allow to draw map of patients who died from COVID-19 as well as provide information on the comorbidities for better management of hospitalized patients.
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