en پزشکی عمومى General medicine تحقیقی Original article <a href="http://jorjanijournal.goums.ac.ir/search.php?sid=1&slc_lang=en&author=Fahim+Yeganeh">Seyedeh Almas Fahim Yeganeh</a>¹&nbsp;<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6607-6022" target="_blank" title="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6607-6022"><img alt="" src="http://jorjanijournal.goums.ac.ir/files/0allsites/images/orcid.png" ></a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://jorjanijournal.goums.ac.ir/search.php?sid=1&slc_lang=en&author=Raghimi">Hanieh Raghimi</a>²&nbsp;<a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4654-5597" target="_blank" title="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4654-5597"><img alt="" src="http://jorjanijournal.goums.ac.ir/files/0allsites/images/orcid.png" ></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LPBd0p4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra">Mohammad Reza Mohammadi</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://orcid.org/000000015525222X" target="_blank" title="http://orcid.org/000000015525222X"><img alt="" src="http://jorjanijournal.goums.ac.ir/files/0allsites/images/orcid.png" ></a>&nbsp;³<br> <span style="font-size:14px;"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b>Background</b>: <span lang="EN">Severely contagious, a beta coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread worldwide since December 2019, a life-threatening disease that leads to high mortality.</span></span><br> <span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b>Methods:</b><span lang="EN"> This study had 200 cases referred and admitted to 5th Azar Hospital in May and June 2020. Treatment started based on signs and symptoms and confirming positive CT scan findings. RT-PCR test is done for all of them. Patients are categorized due to age, underlying diseases, CT scan findings, and mortality.</span></span><br> <span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b>Results:</b><span lang="EN"> Diabetes mellitus (DM) was the most frequent underlying disease (35%), following hypertension (23.5%) and cardiovascular problems (9.5%). Although the severity of CT scan findings within the expired patients&rsquo; group was more than survived, the relation was insignificant (P=0.247). The mean age of cases who died was at least ten years more than survived. There was a mortality risk of 5.9 folds in cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients comparing patients free of CVD.</span></span><br> <span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b>Conclusion:</b><span lang="EN"> In dealing with involved COVID-19 patients considering their age and co-morbidities will help manage earlier and pay more attention to these cases.</span></span></span> Signs and symptoms, COVID-19, CT Scan, Cardiovascular Disease 13 15 http://goums.ac.ir/jorjanijournal/browse.php?a_code=A-10-929-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Seyedeh Almas Fahim Yeganeh yeganeh@goums.ac.ir 100319475328460010761 100319475328460010761 No Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, 5 Azar Hospital, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, IRAN Hanieh Raghimi raghimihanieh@yahoo.com 100319475328460010762 100319475328460010762 No Clinical Research Development Unit (CRDU), 5 Azar Hospital, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Mohammad Reza Mohammadi mr_mohammadi_md@yahoo.com 100319475328460010763 000000015525222X Yes Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, 5 Azar Hospital, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, IRAN