Abstract
Objective: To evidence the prevalence and its correlation with comorbidities by age and sex of the deaths confirmed by OVID-19 in the state of Sergipe-Brazil. Methods: The retrospective and cross-sectional study was conducted on 06/28/2020 with data from Sergipe Epidemiological Surveillance, analyzed by the Chi-square test with a significance level of p>0.05. There were 620 deaths with 73.06% associated with comorbidities. Results: The male gender (53.02%) prevailed hypertension (30.59%), followed by diabetes (28.02%) and heart disease (10.8%). In females (46.08%) the prevalence was similar, Hypertension (30.95%), Diabetes (28.37%) and Heart Diseases (12.32%). The deaths above 50 years influenced moderately (r = 0.65; p = 0.001) and strongly (r = 0.8; p = 0.001) above 60 for deaths, regardless of comorbidities. And in both males (r = 0.18; p = 0.003) and females (r = 0.23; p = 0.001) this correlation was weak for hypertension. As for the association of Hypertension and Diabetes in males (r = 0.13; p = 0.043) and females (r = 0.16; p = 0.018). Conclusion: In Sergipe both men and women die of COVID-19, especially over 60 years with associated comorbidities such as arterial hypertension.