Avaliação espacial da Covid-19 em idosos em Sergipe

Abstract

The study aimed to verify the sociodemographic characteristics, signs and symptoms, underlying comorbidities and clinical evolution in elderly people living in Sergipe-Brazil with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as well as to analyze the spatialization of cases and deaths by municipalities. For this, an ecological study was carried out with 9,188 notified in the Brazilian Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System (SIVESP-Gripe) from March 2020 to January 2024. The results of the study identified that individuals are between 60-69 years old, male, self-declared black, with elementary education, living in urban areas, with signs and symptoms of shortness of breath and cough, with comorbidities such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, had a higher relative frequency. The clinical aspects that stand out are: 8,981 were hospitalized (92%), of which 6,788 needed to go to the Intensive Care Unit (71%) and 4,793 died (lethality = 66%). Regarding the spatial analysis, it was found that the greater Aracaju region has the highest incidence (RR = 1.4) and mortality (RR = 1.33) rates, but the south of the state (RR = 1.25) was the region with the highest proportion of deaths per case. It is concluded that, even though COVID-19 causes harm to the entire population, especially the elderly, the disease affects the most vulnerable more acutely.