Constantino López-Macías , Eduardo López-Medina , Maysa Bonfleur Alves , Aline da Rocha Matos , Juan V. Hernández-Villena , Zuleika Aponte-Torres , Laura E. Sarabia , Paula Manrique-Ramirez , Luis F. Tejado-Gallegos , Larisa Ramirez Gutierrez , Wilhelmine Meeraus , Bárbara Emoingt Furtado
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Clinical characteristics, SARS-CoV-2 variants, and outcomes of adults hospitalized due to COVID-19 in Latin American countries
Objectives
COVID-19 vaccines prevented severe disease outcomes worldwide. As part of a vaccine effectiveness study, the authors summarized demographic and health profiles, vaccination data, SARS-CoV-2 variants, and disease outcomes from patients hospitalized due to COVID-19-like symptoms in Latin America between February and December 2022.
Methods
LIVE was an observational-prospective study with a test-negative case-control design (NCT05282017). Adults admitted with COVID-19-like symptoms were recruited across five Latin American countries. Patients were tested for SARS-CoV-2, and variants were identified through sequencing. Data were collected from medical records and interviews.
Results
Participants recruited (536 cases, 250 controls) had a mean age of 60.5 years. COVID-19 cases (63.7, SD = 19.1) were slightly older than controls (53.8, SD = 20.4). Disorders of the cardiovascular system were the most prevalent comorbidities, and most participants (73.0 %) reported at least one comorbidity. COVID-19 cases mostly presented with moderate (51.1 %) disease. Overall, 50.6 % of participants were unvaccinated against COVID-19, with a higher percentage in cases (56.3 %) than in controls (38.2 %). Viral genomic analysis identified the most prevalent SARS-CoV-2 lineages, BQ.1.1 (11.9 %) among Omicron BA.5 and XBB.1.15 (2.5 %) among recombinant variants. The study was underpowered to estimate vaccine effectiveness due to the low number of COVID-19 hospitalization cases.
Conclusion
The present study revealed key demographic and clinical characteristics of patients hospitalized due to COVID-19. Notably, an older age among confirmed cases, a substantial proportion of unvaccinated individuals, and the decrease in hospitalizations emphasize the complexity of the COVID-19 landscape in Latin America and the need for continued research to inform public health strategies.
期刊介绍:
CLINICS is an electronic journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles in continuous flow, of interest to clinicians and researchers in the medical sciences. CLINICS complies with the policies of funding agencies which request or require deposition of the published articles that they fund into publicly available databases. CLINICS supports the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) on trial registration.