COVID-19 and primary care: possibilities for increasing positive outcomes

Abstract

The aim: Determine the most common non-communicable diseases which are associated with an increased rate of moderate and severe COVID-19 infection. Identify the best tools for diagnosing COVID-19 and predicting the deterioration of the disease. Materials and methods: Publications were processed and analyzed according to the keywords of the topic of work “COVID-19”, “non-communicable disease”, “obesity”, “hypertension”, “Comorbidities”, “frailty”, “diabetes”, “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”, “cardio-vascular diseases”, “liver diseases”, “diagnostic tools”, “outcomes” in the databases of PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science. Conclusions: As a result of the analysis, we found that patients with concomitant obesity, diabetes mellitus, COPD, CVD and liver diseases have an increased the risk of severe forms and death from COVID-19.