TRIBUNMANADO.CO.ID – Many Covid 19 patients have died.
Not only from the age factor, comorbidities also make a person susceptible to this corona virus.
It is necessary to know, what diseases have a higher risk of covid 19 patients.
“The first is heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic lung diseases, because the dominance of Covid-19 attacks the upper respiratory tract and lungs.
Then chronic kidney disease, chronic liver diseases, diseases that affect the immune system such as cancer, lupus,
and other diseases that use these drugs and drugs also affect the body’s systems, “explained the Internal Medicine Specialist. Dr Hendra Zufry SpPD-KEMD FINASIM.
He conveyed this when he was a resource person in the Health Talk Edition Serambi Podcast Program which was broadcast live via Facebook Serambinews.com, Monday (26/10/2020).
He added that, if sorted from the comorbidities, then the first position is heart disease, followed by hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and lung.
“We know the prevalence of heart cases in Aceh is number 1 in Indonesia. Hypertension is also the highest in Indonesia, diabetes number 4 in Indonesia. Kidney failure is also like that very high, and lung disease, including tuberculosis, and other chronic lung diseases, the rates are almost the same, “he said.
If there are individuals who have two comorbidities at once such as diabetes and heart disease, or diabetes and chronic lung disease, diabetes and hypertension, you can imagine that the mortality (death) and morbidity (the level of illness and being healthy in a population) will be much higher .
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