{"doi":"10.1093/pubmed/fdac058","title":"COVID-19 among Amazonian indigenous in Peru: mortality, incidence, and clinical characteristics","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Few studies have described the clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 from ethnic minority groups. Our objective was to evaluate the mortality and incidence rates, clinical characteristics and factors associated with mortality in cases with COVID-19 belonging to the Amazonian indigenous ethnic group in Peru. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study including all cases from COVID-19 among Peruvian people identified as Amazonian indigenous from 07 March to 31 October 2020. We calculated the standardized mortality and incidence ratios using the indirect age-adjusted method to determine the differences between Amazonian Indigenous and the general population. In addition, we used multivariable logistic regression to determine the risk factors for death. RESULTS: A total of 19 018 laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases were analyzed. Indigenous people had 3.18 (95% CI, 3.13-3.23) times the risk of infection and 0.34 (0.31-0.37) times the mortality risk of the general Peruvian population. Males had 1.29 (1.04-1.61) times the odds of death compared with females and for each year of age, the odds of mortality increased 1.03 (1.03-1.04) times. Cases with respiratory distress had 2.47 (1.96-3.10) times more likely to die. Having an immunodeficiency was 18.7 (6.12-57.00) times more likely to die. DISCUSSION: The Amazonian indigenous population in Peru was strongly affected by COVID-19 compared with the general Peruvian population.","journal":"Journal of Public Health","year":2022,"id":268783,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":19,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.6964,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":294341,"name":"Mary F. Reyes-Vega","orcid":"0000-0003-1524-3964","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":504857,"name":"Anderson N. Soriano-Moreno","orcid":"0000-0002-5535-811X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":930972,"name":"Jean Pierre Velásquez Rodríguez","orcid":"0000-0001-9515-3656","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":294347,"name":"Luis Ordoñez Ibargüen","orcid":"0000-0003-2169-0162","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":930973,"name":"Kevin S. Martel","orcid":"0000-0001-5350-6433","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":931523,"name":"Noemi Flores Jaime","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":931524,"name":"Cesar V Munayco","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":294340,"name":"M. Gabriela Soto-Cabezas","orcid":"0000-0002-6737-255X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":14,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:27:14.088663Z","pmid":"35640249","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}