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Background: Coronavirus (CoV) infection has become a pandemic worldwide for February 2020. The infection rate has beenincreasing in India also which prompted the Government to implement countrywide lockdown.Aims and Objectives: The main objective of our study is to evaluate risk factors predisposing the patients to COVID-19 infection.Methods: This is a single center prospective observational study done during April and May 2020, where we have collectedall demographic details of total 59 COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit or general ward in our institute. Wehave evaluated the detailed history of these patients for risk factors such as age, gender, smoking, alcohol exposure, diabetesmellitus, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease and studied their association with COVID-19.Results: In our study, we have found the mean age of presentation to be 51 years and males with 64.4% are more infectedthan females. Diabetics with 32% is the most common risk factor followed by hypertension with 20.3%. Alcohol is next only tohypertension with 12% and smoking comprising 10% of the population studied.Conclusion: Elderly male population, diabetes, and hypertension pose a greater risk for CoV severe acute respiratory syndromecoronavirus 2 infection in our population.
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Background: Seizures beginning in adult life are likely to be an identifiable cause as compared to those beginning in childhood which is more likely to be idiopathic. Aim and objectives: To study the clinical profile and analyze the etiological agents of New Onset Seizures. Materials and methods: This descriptive study was done in the Government HQRS Hospital and AIMSR, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh to know the various etiologies in patients presented with newonset seizures. In these cases history and clinical examination and special investigations like CT brain, MRI brain, EEG, Serology, CSF analysis were done to find out the etiology. Results: Out of 100 patients, 55% were males, 45%were females with male to female ratio of 1.2:1. The majority of males were in 2nd decade and females were in 4th decade. Patients' age ranged from 18 years to 80 years, with the mean of 40.11 years with 77% of the patients were in the below 50 years. Alcohol withdrawal was the leading cause of seizures which account for 34% followed by idiopathic seizures (29%), neuro infection (16%), CVA 12% and metabolic (9%). Conclusion: Alcohol withdrawal is the most common cause of seizure in new-onset seizure patients who coming to Government HQRS Hospital and AIMSR Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh