A new study released on Tuesday by the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community compared the characteristics of patients suffering from the novel coronavirus to characteristics of hospitalized influenza patients.
Published in Nature Communications, the study included 34,128 coronavirus patients from across three continents. More than 8,000 were from the United States, 7341 from South Korea and 18,425 from Spain.
In the United States, those hospitalized with severe cases of coronavirus were more often male and aged between 60 and 75. In South Korea they were more often female. In all three countries, patients hospitalized with the flu were typically older than those suffering severe cases of coronavirus and more likely to be female.
Comorbidities (underlying medical conditions) were common among individuals hospitalized with coronavirus. For example, across the three nations, the prevalence of hypertensive disorder ranged from 24 to 70 percent. Still, those hospitalized with coronavirus “were seen to generally be healthier” than influenza patients.
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