Jain Vijay Kumar, Iyengar Karthikeyan, Vaish Abhishek, Vaishya Raju
Department of Orthopaedics, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, 110001, India.
Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust, Southport, PR8 6PN, UK.
Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2020 Sep-Oct;14(5):1037-1041. doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.067. Epub 2020 Jul 2.
COVID-19 disease has been associated with disproportionate mortality amongst world population. We try to elucidate various reasons for lower mortality rate in the Indian subcontinent due to COVID-19 pandemic.
We carried out a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords such as 'COVID-19', 'Pandemics', 'disease outbreaks' and 'India' on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the month of May 2020 during the current COVID-19 pandemic and assessed mortality data.
The mortality observed in Indian and south Asian subcontinent is lower than in the west. Multifactorial reasons indicated for this differential mortality due to COVID-19 have been described in the current literature.
The effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups are still emerging with disproportionate burden of illness and death amongst some black and ethnic minority groups. Overall the current COVID-19 related mortality appears to be lower in the health and resource challenged populous Indian subcontinent. Further scientific studies would be helpful to understand this disparity in mortality due to COVID-19 in the world population.
COVID-19疫情在全球人口中造成了不成比例的死亡率。我们试图阐明印度次大陆因COVID-19大流行导致死亡率较低的各种原因。
在2020年5月当前COVID-19大流行期间，我们在PubMed、SCOPUS、谷歌学术和Research Gate的搜索引擎上使用“COVID-19”、“大流行”、“疾病爆发”和“印度”等合适的关键词对文献进行了全面综述，并评估了死亡率数据。
在印度和南亚次大陆观察到的死亡率低于西方。当前文献中描述了COVID-19导致这种死亡率差异的多因素原因。
COVID-19对种族和少数族裔群体健康的影响仍在显现，一些黑人和少数族裔群体承受着不成比例的疾病和死亡负担。总体而言，在健康和资源面临挑战的人口众多的印度次大陆，当前与COVID-19相关的死亡率似乎较低。进一步的科学研究将有助于理解全球人口中因COVID-19导致的死亡率差异。
