Evaluation of Relationship Between Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease and Morbidity and Mortality of COVID-19 Patients

Hamid Khederlou; Kaveh Hosseini; Ahmadreza Rasouli; Nafiseh Sharif; Morteza  Kazemi; Maryam Mehrpooya

doi:10.18502/jimc.v6i1.11845

Hamid Khederlou Tehran Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Kaveh Hosseini Department of Cardiology, Tehran Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Ahmadreza Rasouli Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Nafiseh Sharif Students’ Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Morteza Kazemi Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
Maryam Mehrpooya Department of Interventional Cardiology, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/jimc.v6i1.11845

Keywords: Cardiovascular diseases, Coronavirus disease 2019, Morbidity

Abstract

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic is a life-threatening condition with high morbidity and mortality rate in Iran. Based on several studies, COVID-19 clinical outcomes are associated with co-morbidities, such as Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD). It appears that there is a relationship between the COVID-19 prognosis and the existence of CVD-related risk factors, for instance hypertension, obesity, diabetes, etc.

Methods: A descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the relationship between CVD risk factors and COVID-19 with a total of 100 participants in Imam Khomeini hospital, Tehran, Iran. A checklist of anthropometric and prognostic information was filled for each patient and finally the data were analyzed.

Results: There was a statistically significant dependence between hospitalization in ICU, reservoir bag-mask, intubation, life-threatening complications, and the final outcome (p<0.01). However, there was no significant correlation between CVD risk factors and prognostic parameters like length of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) hospitalization, the requirement to reserve bag-mask oxygenation, etc.

Conclusion: In this investigation, no significant association was observed between CVD-related risk factors and COVID-19 prognosis among Iranian adult COVID-19 cases.