Effect of comorbidities and risk conditions on death from COVID-19 in migrants in Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comorbidities increase the risk of death for patients with COVID-19, however, little is known about how it affects the prognosis of migrants who contract the virus. Therefore, this article aims to determine which comorbidities and risk conditions are associated with the probability of death among migrants infected with COVID-19 in Mexico.

Methods

We use a sample of migrants with a positive diagnosis for COVID-19 (N = 2126) registered in the public database published in the National Epidemiological Surveillance System of the Mexican Ministry of Health; the technique used was a Probit regression.

Results

The findings show that most of the comorbidities commonly associated with death from COVID-19 in the native-born population were actually not significant whe

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Martinez OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8683816 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature