Clinical Characteristics of Elderly Patients with COVID-19 in Hunan Province, China: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study

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Authors

Ting Guo · Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Qinxue Shen · Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University

Wei Guo · Central South University

Wenlong He · Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Jinhua Li · Central South University

Yi Zhang · Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University

Yunnian Wang

Abstract

Elderly patients usually have chronic medical illness and are likely to have a severe or critically severe condition. They could show atypical symptoms without fever or cough and multiple organ dysfunction. Old-old patients tend to have more complications than young-old patients during hospitalization. Careful nursing, observation, and systemic treatment are very important in elderly patients.

Topics & Keywords

COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Gerontology

Volume 66, Issue 5, pp. 467-475

DOI: 10.1159/000508734

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