Conference Abstract | Volume 8, Abstract ELIC2025392 (Poster 146) | Published: 11 Aug 2025
Maria Luz Lima Mendonça1, Katrin Ramsauer2
1Instituto Nacional de Saúde Pública, Praia, Cabo Verde, 2Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, Praia, Cabo Verde
&Corresponding author: Katrin Ramsauer, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, Praia, Cabo Verde, Email: katrin.ramsauer@cepi.net
Received: 31 May 2025, Accepted: 09 Jul 2025, Published: 11 Aug 2025
Domain: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Keywords: COVID-19, Mortality, Comorbidity
©Maria Luz Lima Mendonça et al. Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health (ISSN: 2664-2824). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article: Maria Luz Lima Mendonça et al., Characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized with the new coronavirus in Cabo Verde in the semester after the country’s first case. Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health. 2025;8(ConfProc5):00290. https://doi.org/10.37432/JIEPH-CONFPRO5-00290
Cabo Verde had one of the highest COVID 19 attack rates in Africa. Contact tracing and free mass testing implemented early on allowed for high case detection, while the overall fatality rate remained under 1%. However, little is known concerning those requiring hospitalization. This study aimed to describe the clinical, sociodemographic characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV 2) between March 19th (date of the first case) to September 30th, 2020.
Included 179 patients. Their average age was 57 (DP=23.5), and 51% (n=92) were female. At admission to the infirmary, 67% (n=120) had a respiratory rate over 20 breaths/minutes, 49% (n=87) had a cough, and 7% (n=12) presented axillar temperature ≥38°C. The median hospital stay was seven days (Range: 0 72), and 15% (n=26) of patients required hospitalization at a Special Care Unit. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (18%; n=31), sepsis (13%; n=23) and acute kidney injury (11%; n=20) were the most frequent complications. Of the 108 patients needing ventilation support at some point, 14% (15) received invasive mechanical ventilation. At the endpoint, 79% (142) of individuals had been discharged, 19% (33) had died, and 2% (4) were non residents transferred to hospitals abroad upon request. Among those who died, 32 presented with respiratory rate over 20 breaths/minute (p=0.000), 17 had diabetes (p=0.001), 8 had obesity (p=0.036) and 24 had hypertension (p=0.045).
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