Advanced age and comorbidities as risk factors for mortality in COVID-19 patients treated with Home Oxygen Therapy (HOT) in a Northern Italy Local Health Authority

Igiene e Sanità Pubblica 2025; 99 (1): 36-45

Beatrice Canavera¹, Tiziana Cena², Rossana Monciino¹, Maddalena Galante¹, Roberta Giacometti¹, Luca Rabbiosi¹, Valerio Antognoli¹, Fabiola Formica³, Antonietta Barbieri¹

Affiliation

¹ Struttura Complessa Farmaceutica Territoriale, ASL VC, 13100 Vercelli
² Servizio Osservatorio Epidemiologico, ASL VC, 13100 Vercelli
³ Ufficiale Medico Marina Militare

Keywords: h-index, impact journal, social media, bibliometrics

ABSTRACT

COVID-19, which stands for Coronavirus Disease 2019, is a highly transmissible viral infection, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1]. Its rapid dissemination prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to officially declare it a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 [2]. It was later recognized as one of the most significant global health and socioeconomic crisis of modern times, leading to 776.8 million confirmed cases and over 7 million confirmed deaths [2, 3]. 

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