Publications by authors named "Oluwaseun David Oladokun"
Article Synopsis
- Lagos State has the highest COVID-19 burden in Nigeria, and a study assessed death factors among hospitalized patients there.
- Out of 2,858 patients, most were males (65.8%), young (average age 41.9), asymptomatic (55.5%), and had mild disease (73.8%); the overall death rate was 6.5%.
- Key risk factors for death included being male, older age, having comorbidities, and experiencing severe COVID-19, with males having a 50% higher chance and severely ill patients a 9-fold higher risk of death.
Background: A lot has been documented about the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We compared the clinical features of real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed COVID-19 positive and negative patients admitted in Lagos State.
Methods: Medical records of all patients admitted in 15 isolation centres across Lagos state between 27 February 2020 and 30 September 2020, were abstracted and reviewed.