Nearly 80% of COVID deaths in Alberta were from individuals with 3 or MORE comorbidities
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Newly released data from the Alberta government shows that 77.1% of COVID deaths occurred in patients with three or more comorbidities.
Patients with two comorbidities presented 15.9% of deaths while patients with one comorbidity represented 5%.
Patients with no comorbidity represented only 2% of deaths.
The most common comorbidity in COVID-related deaths was hypertension, present in 87.6% of the deceased.
The second most common was dementia, present in 57.7% of COVID deaths. Cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes, renal diseases, respiratory diseases, cancer, and stroke were among the most prevalent comorbidities.
The average age for COVID cases that died in Alberta is 82 years while Canada’s life expectancy is 82.25 years.
A 2014 medical paper found that the “average marginal decline in life expectancy is 1.8 years with each additional chronic condition—ranging from 0.4 fewer years with the first condition to 2.6 fewer years with the sixth condition.”
This means that on average, a patient with three comorbidities would see their life expectancy reduced at least 5.5 years from 82.25 to 76.75 years old, which is 5.25 years under the average age of COVID deaths in Alberta (82 years-old).