Prevalence of Chronic Comorbidities in Chikungunya: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

There is some evidence that chikungunya virus (CHIKV) disease severity is related to particular comorbidities such as obesity, diabetes, cardiac diseases, and/or asthma.No study has examined the frequency of chronic comorbidities in severe CHIKV cases.The present study is the first to systematically describe the prevalence of chronic comorbidities in CHIKV and evaluate their possible contributions to disease severity.Hypertension, diabetes and cardiac diseases were the most frequent chronic comorbidities in CHIKV patients where they present in about 30%, 20% and 15% of the cases, respectively.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research