Patients older than 60 years, with hypertension, diabetes and D-dimer values above 3.17 µg/mL have higher thrombotic events due to COVID-19

Objectives:
What are the risk factors for developing thrombotic events due to COVID-19?

Study design:
This review article included 20 articles in the qualitative analysis and 6 articles were included in the meta-analysis.
Case-control studies showed bias related with exposure and the main bias in cohort studies was related with selection and outcome.
All articles received score 4 for the level of evidence.

Results and conclusions:   
The investigators found hypertension and diabetes were the comorbidities more frequently associated with thrombolytic events.

The investigators found significant results regarding D-dimer [p 0.0001] and age [p = 0.0202] for thrombotic events in patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

The investigators concluded patients older than 60 years, with hypertension, diabetes and D-dimer values above 3.17 µg/mL can be considered prognostic factors for developing thrombotic events due to COVID-19.

Original title:
Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and thrombotic conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Gabbai-Armelin PR, Oliveira AB, […], Brighenti FL.

Link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33772772/

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