Publications by authors named "M Mandina"
Background: One year after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the focus of attention has shifted to the emergence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs). The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of VOCs in patients followed for COVID-19 at Kinshasa university hospital (KUH) during the 3rd and 4th waves of the pandemic in Kinshasa. Hospital mortality was compared to that of the first two waves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Mortality rates of coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) disease continue to increase worldwide and in Africa. In this study, we aimed to summarize the available results on the association between sociodemographic, clinical, biological, and comorbidity factors and the risk of mortality due to COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa.
Methods: We followed the PRISMA checklist (S1 Checklist).
Background: In Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), some patients have low oxygen saturation without any dyspnea. This has been termed "happy hypoxia." No worldwide prevalence survey of this phenomenon has been conducted.
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- - The study investigated the COVID-19 mortality rate among diabetic patients in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as this data was previously unknown.
- - A systematic review of research articles was conducted, analyzing data from seven studies with a total of 7,778 COVID-19 patients, using various statistical methods including odds ratios.
- - The results showed that having diabetes increases the risk of death from COVID-19 by 1.39 times in hospitalized patients, with no significant variation in study results or publication bias detected.
Introduction: the objectives of the present study were to determine the mortality rate in patients over 60 years of age with COVID-19 and to identify risk factors.
Methods: the present historical cohort study took place at the Kinshasa University Hospital (KUH), DRC. Older patients admitted from March 2020 to May 2021 and diagnosed COVID-19 positive at the laboratory were selected.