Abstract:

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).Although majority of infected patients suffer from a mild form of illness and recover, a portion of patients suffer from severe disease and may eventually succumb to the illness. It has been found that risk factors like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, cancer, COPD, asthma, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease ,pneumonia, obesity, and smoking were responsible for the development of the severe disease or death.Studying the common factors in patients who had mortality due to COVID 19 may help in identifying avoidable risk factors and in identifying high risk patients.

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