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– International research shows that it is the elderly who have the highest risk of dying, but that we cannot always say in advance who will become seriously ill. Anyone can get infected and get sick. You have no guarantee, even if you are slim, young and healthy. Over time, we will repeat these analyzes and then connect with who will be vaccinated, says department director Hanne Løvdal Gulseth in the Department of Chronic Diseases and Aging at the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) to VG.
She is part of the group of doctors at FHI and the Norwegian Health Directorate behind a study that was published in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association on Thursday this week.
Doctors have examined the disease profiles of the 244 people who died from coronavirus between March 1 and May 31 of this year. They show that 67 of those who died, 27 percent, had no recorded chronic disease. Among those with chronic diseases, cardiovascular patients accounted for half of the deaths.
At the same time, the study shows that more than half of those over the age of 90 who were diagnosed with an infection died.
