COVID-19: deadly disease for patients with chronic non-communicable diseases

Resumen

COVID-19 is the most recently discovered infectious disease caused by the coronavirus. Both this virus, and the disease it causes were unknown before the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. COVID-19 is currently a pandemic that affects many countries around the world. Chronic non-communicable diseases are among the leading causes of death and disability in the world, so their controls are important since it is a tendency for people suffering from any of these diseases to develop a serious form of COVID-19. The objective of this bibliographic review was to explain why people with chronic non-communicable diseases develop more serious forms of COVID-19. For this, a total of 25 bibliographic sources were consulted. It was concluded that the presence of chronic non-communicable disease causes a decrease in the immunity of people making them with it more vulnerable to serious forms of the disease.