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Incidence of COVID-19 infection and prevalence of diabetes, obesity and hypertension according to altitude in Peruvian population.

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:To investigate the cumulative incidence and mortality of COVID-19 and the prevalence of comorbidities such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension in regions with different altitude levels ranging from sea level to high altitude. METHODOLOGY: Analytical study in which we correlated secondary data obtained from reports of the Ministry of Health and National Institute for Statistics and Informatic. The cumulative incidence and mortality of COVID-19 in 25 peruvian regions is reported, together with its relationnship with altitude levels during March-July 2020 using Pearsońs correlation. We also aiming to assess the prevalence of diabetes, obesity and hypertension with altitude according to the ENDES 2018 data using Gamma statistics. RESULTS: COVID-19 maintained an inverse correlation with higher rates in the coastal regions and lower rates with increasing altitude in the cumulative incidence (Pearson = -0.8, p < 0.000) and mortality (Pearson = -0.77, p < 0.000), adjusted gender and age. The prevalence of diabetes and obesity showed the same inverse correlation trend with altitude (Gamma p < 0.000) but not hypertension (Gamma p = 0.13) CONCLUSIONS: The data in Peru it is suggested that physiological adaptation in a hypoxic environment at high altitude may protect persons from the severe impact of acute infection caused by SARS-CoV-2. The reduction in cumulative incidence and mortality rates with increasing altitude is the main finding. Possible mechanisms such as a decreased expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and a lower virulence because of a high altitude environment, may explain this epidemiological features. In addition, the lower prevalence of diabetes, obesity and hypertension may establish a protective epidemiology against these disease.

journal_name

Diabetes Res Clin Pract

journal_title

Diabetes research and clinical practice

authors

Seclén SN,Nunez-Robles E,Yovera-Aldana M,Arias-Chumpitaz A

doi

10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108463

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-11-01 00:00:00

pages

108463

eissn

0168-8227

issn

1872-8227

pii

S0168-8227(20)30716-6

journal_volume

169

pub_type

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Incidence of COVID-19 infection and prevalence of diabetes, obesity and hypertension according to altitude in Peruvian population.