Association Between Hypertension and Physical Findings of COVID-19 Infected Patients; A Clinical Retrospective Study

Background The sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19), which originated from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV2) infection, has recently become an international public health emergency. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical symptoms and physical findings in both hypertensive and non-hypertensive patients infected with covid-19. Methods Retrospective observational study with diagnosis of corona-induced pneumonia by laboratory-confirmed test was conducted on 280 consecutive unselected patients. The demographics, laboratory, and clinical findings data were extracted from the hospital registry database. Results Of our two hundred and eighty patients in the study, there were 70 men (47%) and the male-female ratio was 1.17:1 and 138 (50%) were older than 60 years (mean = 67.75), and also 50 in-hospital deaths occurred (mortality rate, 17%). totally 19(6.9%) were taking tobacco, opioid, and weed. There were no significant differences in the percentages of fever, cough, sputum production, gastrointestinal symptoms, muscle ache, and headache in the both hypertensive and non-hypertensive groups. The prevalence of underlying diseases was significantly higher in older patients in comparison with younger ones (p-value = 0 < 0.05), Clinical worsening was higher in patients with hypertension relative to patients with average blood pressure (P-value = 0 < 0.05). Conclusion The most common comorbidities in several reports was hypertension. People with high blood pressure are also slightly more likely to experience poor prognosis and even higher rate of mortality.in the other hand, hypertension may have associated with higher risk of severe or fatal COVID-19 disease.