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. 2020 Sep-Oct;14(5):1037-1041.
doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.067. Epub 2020 Jul 2.

Differential mortality in COVID-19 patients from India and western countries

Vijay Kumar Jain  1 , Karthikeyan Iyengar  2 , Abhishek Vaish  3 , Raju Vaishya  4
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Differential mortality in COVID-19 patients from India and western countries

Vijay Kumar Jain et al. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2020 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Background and aims: COVID-19 disease has been associated with disproportionate mortality amongst world population. We try to elucidate various reasons for lower mortality rate in the Indian subcontinent due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: We carried out a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords such as 'COVID-19', 'Pandemics', 'disease outbreaks' and 'India' on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the month of May 2020 during the current COVID-19 pandemic and assessed mortality data.

Results: The mortality observed in Indian and south Asian subcontinent is lower than in the west. Multifactorial reasons indicated for this differential mortality due to COVID-19 have been described in the current literature.

Conclusions: The effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups are still emerging with disproportionate burden of illness and death amongst some black and ethnic minority groups. Overall the current COVID-19 related mortality appears to be lower in the health and resource challenged populous Indian subcontinent. Further scientific studies would be helpful to understand this disparity in mortality due to COVID-19 in the world population.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Disease outbreaks; India; Pandemics; Public health.

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Declaration of competing interest None.

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Death rate Chart in percentage population due to COVID-19.
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Death chart rate per million due to COVID-19.
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Infection rate chart in percentage due to COVID-19.
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