- The European Research Journal
- Vol: 8 Issue: 5
- Evaluation of the effect values of risk factors by clustering method in patients who died due to COV...
Evaluation of the effect values of risk factors by clustering method in patients who died due to COVID-19 disease
Authors : Salih Metin, Suna Eraybar, Hüseyin Aygün, Ilker Ercan, Canan Demir
Pages : 678-684
Doi:10.18621/eurj.1140623
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Publication Date : 2022-09-04
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Objectives: The aim of this study is to determine the factors that may be associated with mortality in patients who died due to COVID-19 and to determine the effect sizes of the factors that make a statistically significant difference. Methods: The patients who died due to COVID-19 between 01.03.2020 and 01.03.2021 in Bursa province were evaluated retrospectively. In addition to demographic information such as age, gender, nationality, existing chronic diseases of the patients, COVID- PCR test results, length of hospital stay, intensive care unit follow up times, intubation application times were recorded. The effect size of the variables on mortality were evaluated. Results: Total of 3,510 deaths due to COVID-19 were evaluated. Of these, 2,107 (60%) were male and 1,403 (40%) were female. Three thousand three hundred and seventy-four (96.12%) patients are 50 years or older. In both sexes, the highest number of deaths were in the age range of 70-79. The most common comorbidities were hypertension (HT) (n = 1,182; 34.16%) and diabetes mellitus (DM) (n =776; 22.43%). HT and DM had a strong effect value between the groups ( p < 0.001 and p < 0.001, phi effect values: 0.661 and 0.681, respectively). Although there was a statistically significant difference for the age variable, it had an insignificant effect value ( p = 0.008,Keywords : Chronical disease, COVID-19, COVID-19 related deaths, effect value, risk factors