Characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 during the first to fifth waves of infection : a report from the Japan COVID-19 Task Force

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BACKGROUND: We aimed to elucidate differences in the characteristics of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requiring hospitalization in Japan, by COVID-19 waves, from conventional strains to the Delta variant.

METHODS: We used secondary data from a database and performed a retrospective cohort study that included 3261 patients aged ≥ 18 years enrolled from 78 hospitals that participated in the Japan COVID-19 Task Force between February 2020 and September 2021.

RESULTS: Patients hospitalized during the second (mean age, 53.2 years [standard deviation {SD}, ± 18.9]) and fifth (mean age, 50.7 years [SD ± 13.9]) COVID-19 waves had a lower mean age than those hospitalized during the other COVID-19 waves. Patients hospitalized during the first COVID-19 wave had a longer hospital stay (mean, 30.3 days [SD ± 21.5], p < 0.0001), and post-hospitalization complications, such as bacterial infections (21.3%, p < 0.0001), were also noticeable. In addition, there was an increase in the use of drugs such as remdesivir/baricitinib/tocilizumab/steroids during the latter COVID-19 waves. In the fifth COVID-19 wave, patients exhibited a greater number of presenting symptoms, and a higher percentage of patients required oxygen therapy at the time of admission. However, the percentage of patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation was the highest in the first COVID-19 wave and the mortality rate was the highest in the third COVID-19 wave.

CONCLUSIONS: We identified differences in clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in each COVID-19 wave up to the fifth COVID-19 wave in Japan. The fifth COVID-19 wave was associated with greater disease severity on admission, the third COVID-19 wave had the highest mortality rate, and the first COVID-19 wave had the highest percentage of patients requiring mechanical ventilation.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

BMC infectious diseases - 22(2022), 1 vom: 12. Dez., Seite 935

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Ho [VerfasserIn]
Chubachi, Shotaro [VerfasserIn]
Namkoong, Ho [VerfasserIn]
Asakura, Takanori [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Hiromu [VerfasserIn]
Otake, Shiro [VerfasserIn]
Nakagawara, Kensuke [VerfasserIn]
Morita, Atsuho [VerfasserIn]
Fukushima, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]
Watase, Mayuko [VerfasserIn]
Kusumoto, Tatsuya [VerfasserIn]
Masaki, Katsunori [VerfasserIn]
Kamata, Hirofumi [VerfasserIn]
Ishii, Makoto [VerfasserIn]
Hasegawa, Naoki [VerfasserIn]
Harada, Norihiro [VerfasserIn]
Ueda, Tetsuya [VerfasserIn]
Ueda, Soichiro [VerfasserIn]
Ishiguro, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Arimura, Ken [VerfasserIn]
Saito, Fukuki [VerfasserIn]
Yoshiyama, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Nakano, Yasushi [VerfasserIn]
Mutoh, Yoshikazu [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Yusuke [VerfasserIn]
Murakami, Koji [VerfasserIn]
Okada, Yukinori [VerfasserIn]
Koike, Ryuji [VerfasserIn]
Kitagawa, Yuko [VerfasserIn]
Kimura, Akinori [VerfasserIn]
Imoto, Seiya [VerfasserIn]
Miyano, Satoru [VerfasserIn]
Ogawa, Seishi [VerfasserIn]
Kanai, Takanori [VerfasserIn]
Fukunaga, Koichi [VerfasserIn]
Japan COVID-19 Task Force [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Ho [Sonstige Person]
Chubachi, Shotaro [Sonstige Person]
Namkoong, Ho [Sonstige Person]
Asakura, Takanori [Sonstige Person]
Tanaka, Hiromu [Sonstige Person]
Otake, Shiro [Sonstige Person]
Nakagawara, Kensuke [Sonstige Person]
Morita, Atsuho [Sonstige Person]
Fukushima, Takahiro [Sonstige Person]
Watase, Mayuko [Sonstige Person]
Kusumoto, Tatsuya [Sonstige Person]
Masaki, Katsunori [Sonstige Person]
Kamata, Hirofumi [Sonstige Person]
Ishii, Makoto [Sonstige Person]
Hasegawa, Naoki [Sonstige Person]
Harada, Norihiro [Sonstige Person]
Ueda, Tetsuya [Sonstige Person]
Ueda, Soichiro [Sonstige Person]
Ishiguro, Takashi [Sonstige Person]
Arimura, Ken [Sonstige Person]
Saito, Fukuki [Sonstige Person]
Yoshiyama, Takashi [Sonstige Person]
Nakano, Yasushi [Sonstige Person]
Mutoh, Yoshikazu [Sonstige Person]
Suzuki, Yusuke [Sonstige Person]
Murakami, Koji [Sonstige Person]
Okada, Yukinori [Sonstige Person]
Koike, Ryuji [Sonstige Person]
Kitagawa, Yuko [Sonstige Person]
Kimura, Akinori [Sonstige Person]
Imoto, Seiya [Sonstige Person]
Miyano, Satoru [Sonstige Person]
Ogawa, Seishi [Sonstige Person]
Kanai, Takanori [Sonstige Person]
Fukunaga, Koichi [Sonstige Person]
Takahashi, Kazuhisa [Sonstige Person]
Naito, Toshio [Sonstige Person]
Hiki, Makoto [Sonstige Person]
Matsushita, Yasushi [Sonstige Person]
Takagi, Haruhi [Sonstige Person]
Aoki, Ryousuke [Sonstige Person]
Nakamura, Ai [Sonstige Person]
Harada, Sonoko [Sonstige Person]
Sasano, Hitoshi [Sonstige Person]
Masaki, Katsunori [Sonstige Person]
Ikemura, Shinnosuke [Sonstige Person]
Okamori, Satoshi [Sonstige Person]
Terai, Hideki [Sonstige Person]
Asakura, Takanori [Sonstige Person]
Sasaki, Junichi [Sonstige Person]
Morisaki, Hiroshi [Sonstige Person]
Uwamino, Yoshifumi [Sonstige Person]
Nanki, Kosaku [Sonstige Person]
Mikami, Yohei [Sonstige Person]
Uchida, Sho [Sonstige Person]
Uno, Shunsuke [Sonstige Person]
Ishihara, Rino [Sonstige Person]
Matsubara, Yuta [Sonstige Person]
Nishimura, Tomoyasu [Sonstige Person]
Ogawa, Takunori [Sonstige Person]
Sato, Toshiro [Sonstige Person]
Azuma, Masanori [Sonstige Person]
Saito, Ryuichi [Sonstige Person]
Sado, Toshikatsu [Sonstige Person]
Miyazaki, Yoshimune [Sonstige Person]
Sato, Ryuichi [Sonstige Person]
Haruta, Yuki [Sonstige Person]
Nagasaki, Tadao [Sonstige Person]
Yasui, Yoshinori [Sonstige Person]
Hasegawa, Yoshinori [Sonstige Person]
Tada, Ai [Sonstige Person]
Miyawaki, Masayoshi [Sonstige Person]
Yamamoto, Masaomi [Sonstige Person]
Yoshida, Eriko [Sonstige Person]
Hayashi, Reina [Sonstige Person]
Nagasaka, Tomoki [Sonstige Person]
Arai, Sawako [Sonstige Person]
Kaneko, Yutaro [Sonstige Person]
Sasaki, Kana [Sonstige Person]
Isono, Taisuke [Sonstige Person]
Shibata, Shun [Sonstige Person]
Matsui, Yuma [Sonstige Person]
Hosoda, Chiaki [Sonstige Person]
Takano, Kenji [Sonstige Person]
Nishida, Takashi [Sonstige Person]
Kobayashi, Yoichi [Sonstige Person]
Takaku, Yotaro [Sonstige Person]
Takayanagi, Noboru [Sonstige Person]
Tagaya, Etsuko [Sonstige Person]
Kawana, Masatoshi [Sonstige Person]
Nakamori, Yasushi [Sonstige Person]
Yoshiya, Kazuhisa [Sonstige Person]
Saito, Fukuki [Sonstige Person]
Yoshihara, Tomoyuki [Sonstige Person]
Wada, Daiki [Sonstige Person]
Iwamura, Hiromu [Sonstige Person]
Kanayama, Syuji [Sonstige Person]
Maruyama, Shuhei [Sonstige Person]
Hasegawa, Takanori [Sonstige Person]
Takahashi, Kunihiko [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Hospitalization
Journal Article
Respiratory infection
Wave of infection

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Date Completed 14.12.2022

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12879-022-07927-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350223327