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Diabetes Metab Syndr
. 2020 Jul 2;14(5):1037-1041.
doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.067. Online ahead of print.
Differential Mortality in COVID-19 Patients From India and Western Countries
Vijay Kumar Jain[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Karthikeyan Iyengar[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Abhishek Vaish[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Raju Vaishya[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
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Abstract
Background and aims: COVID-19 disease has been associated with disproportionate mortality amongst world population. We try to elucidate various reasons for lower mortality rate in the Indian subcontinent due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: We carried out a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords such as 'COVID-19', 'Pandemics', 'disease outbreaks' and 'India' on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the month of May 2020 during the current COVID-19 pandemic and assessed mortality data.
Results: The mortality observed in Indian and south Asian subcontinent is lower than in the west. Multifactorial reasons indicated for this differential mortality due to COVID-19 have been described in the current literature.
Conclusions: The effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups are still emerging with disproportionate burden of illness and death amongst some black and ethnic minority groups. Overall the current COVID-19 related mortality appears to be lower in the health and resource challenged populous Indian subcontinent. Further scientific studies would be helpful to understand this disparity in mortality due to COVID-19 in the world population.
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Disease outbreaks; India; Pandemics; Public health.
. 2020 Jul 2;14(5):1037-1041.
doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.067. Online ahead of print.
Differential Mortality in COVID-19 Patients From India and Western Countries
Vijay Kumar Jain[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Karthikeyan Iyengar[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Abhishek Vaish[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Raju Vaishya[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32640415
- DOI: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.067
Abstract
Background and aims: COVID-19 disease has been associated with disproportionate mortality amongst world population. We try to elucidate various reasons for lower mortality rate in the Indian subcontinent due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: We carried out a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords such as 'COVID-19', 'Pandemics', 'disease outbreaks' and 'India' on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the month of May 2020 during the current COVID-19 pandemic and assessed mortality data.
Results: The mortality observed in Indian and south Asian subcontinent is lower than in the west. Multifactorial reasons indicated for this differential mortality due to COVID-19 have been described in the current literature.
Conclusions: The effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups are still emerging with disproportionate burden of illness and death amongst some black and ethnic minority groups. Overall the current COVID-19 related mortality appears to be lower in the health and resource challenged populous Indian subcontinent. Further scientific studies would be helpful to understand this disparity in mortality due to COVID-19 in the world population.
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Disease outbreaks; India; Pandemics; Public health.