[The alteration of the structure of mortality of endocrine system diseases, nutrition disorders and metabolic disturbances in individuals of able-bodied age and older in conditions of pandemic]

Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med. 2021 Nov;29(6):1433-1438. doi: 10.32687/0869-866X-2021-29-6-1433-1438.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The elderly age and endocrine diseases are among death risk factors at contamination with new coronavirus infection. To reply the question of how the influence of these risk factors is summing up, differences were determined concerning patterns of changes in structure of mortality of endocrine system diseases, nutrition disorders and metabolic disturbances in individuals of able-bodied age and older against the background of COVID-19 pandemic. on the basis of information from the Moscow database of deaths of endocrine system diseases, nutrition disorders and metabolic disturbances, the changes in contribution of individual diseases to the death causes structure in 2019-2021 were analyzed. The groups of individuals of able-bodied age and older were compared. It was established that in both groups rate of indicating SARS-CoV-2 virus infection as concomitant disease decreased while rate of indicating concomitant diseases at death of COVID-19 increased. The group differences in changes of structure of death causes were established in 2021. The percentage of undetermined forms of diabetes and obesity in structure of death causes increased in the elderly, while in individuals of able-bodied age increased. The percentage of obesity as concomitant disease of death of COVID-19 in individuals of able-bodied age increased and did no change were detected in the elderly group. The input of poly-glandular dysfunction as consequence of old infection into mortality is five times higher among individuals of able-bodied age. On the basis of received results, assumption was made SARS-CoV-2 virus contamination ruinously affects development of pathological process under endocrine diseases regardless of age, while age affects spreading of endocrine diseases and degree of resistance to development of infectious process directly. The differences in patterns of changes of structure of death causes of population of able-bodied age and older are associated with low quality of diagnostics of death causes in individuals of elder age groups.

Keywords: concomitant diseases; death causes; death risk; elderly age; health; quality of diagnosis.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • COVID-19*
  • Endocrine System Diseases* / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Nutrition Disorders*
  • Pandemics
  • SARS-CoV-2