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Mostly men, in fifty percent of the cases between the ages of sixty and eighty, one in three already suffers from fairly serious chronic diseases. These are the data processed by the Regional Epidemiological Observatory – the technical-scientific structure of the Department of Health – which analyzes the “state” of those who – in the months of September and October – lost their lives due to Covid. “It is clear that the trend of mortality follows proportionally to the number of infections – explains Angelo D’Argenzio, Director of the Observatory – in October there was a real increase in cases: we went from about ten deaths per month, registered in July, August and September, to one hundred in October. And the trend still seems to be on the rise.
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SEX
Advancing with the analysis of regional data -treated by the Observatory in agreement with the Crisis Unit and the Civil Protection Department- it turns out that seventy percent of the deaths from the virus hits are men, only thirty women: « It is purely descriptive data – adds the expert – we are not in a position to say whether it is a variable linked to sex or – as is likely – related to clinical conditions at a disadvantage against the virus. That figure could easily be conditioned by the fact that most women, when they get sick, are in better physical condition than men. Not to mention, scientific studies show that women develop a greater immune response to pathogens, including viruses, making them less susceptible to infection from microorganisms.
AGE
And let’s move on to the age groups we have thought about since the pandemic broke out: 85 percent of the deceased are over sixty years old – while between forty and sixty the percentage drops to 14.2 – even 0.5 between twenty and forty years. So: men and the elderly are the most affected. And often he also suffers from previous diseases: “Of a hundred deaths – adds Angelo D’Argenzio – 36 percent suffered from a chronic disease, 64, even two or more diseases. Attention, however: these data in particular – the director of the Epidemiological Observatory explains better – refer to the first wave of deaths, but I can say with a good deal of certainty that the current analysis, still in progress, suggests results of the whole. stackable “.
PREVIOUS PATHOLOGIES
When it comes to chronic diseases, in most cases, patients who died later suffered from respiratory and kidney diseases, pulmonary bronchitis, immune disorders, neurological diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, tumors and obesity, an “aggravating” factor in the prognosis of COVID-19 contagion. It goes without saying that smokers are arguably the worst offenders – nicotine increases the risk of serious respiratory infections. They are estimated to be at least three times more likely than non-smokers to develop severe pneumonia. But not only that: the risk of needing intensive care and mechanical ventilation is double compared to those who have never smoked. “We will be able to be more precise about the previous pathologies that afflicted the deaths of Covid when we have finished the examination of the clinical history – explains the director of the Epidemiological Observatory – a long and complex work destined to confirm, in percentage, the information referred to. possession ».
THE RESIDENCE
Finally, analyzing the distribution of the deceased by province of residence, it turns out that the highest number of deaths is registered in the province of Naples, as one could easily imagine based on the number of the resident population (approximately half of the entire region) . LAvellino province, on the other hand, is the one with the highest number of deaths during the closing period from March to April (the absolute data must always be correlated with the resident population) while the highest rates are those corresponding to the areas of the metropolitan city of Naples (Asl Napoli 1, 2 and 3).
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