Author/Authors :
delavar, marzieh islamic azad university, tehran medical branch, tehran, iran , kuchaki, zeinab shahed university, tehran, iran , behrouzinezhad, reyhaneh islamic azad university - school of medicine, faculty of medicine, tehran, iran , khodabandeh, mahdieh , kashan, iran , darvishzadeh, amirhossein zanjan university of medical sciences - corona center, hazrat abolfazl sar asyab hospital, zanjan, iran
Abstract :
this research sudy evaluates the association between blood pressure and mortality during the covid-19 epidemic. a software program was employed to manage electronic titles. the 95% confidence interval for the risk ratio, fixed effect method, and mantel–haenszel formula were calculated. meta- analysis in the present study was performed using stata 16 software. the risk ratio of high blood pressure between poor and good outcomes was 0.73 (rr, 0.73 95 % ci 0.63, 0.83). this result showed high blood pressure had a statistically significant association with increased composite poor outcomes. meta-analysis showed an association between high blood pressure and increased mortality, acute respiratory distress syndrome, severe covid- 19, icu care, and disease progression.
Keywords :
blood pressure , hypertension , covid , 19 , mortality
