Introduction:

Smokers are usually within the higher risk group to suffer from COVID-19 and resulting complications.

Objective:

To determine some clinical-epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 in smokers and non-smokers workers of the Pediatric Hospital of Camagüey, during the year 2021.

Methods:

A descriptive, cross-sectional, comparative study was carried out. The universe consisted of 86 confirmed patients, divided into two groups of 43, assigning smokers and non-smokers to one group and non-smokers to the other, with epidemiological survey and positive PCR result. Variables studied included: age groups and gender, referred symptoms, place of medical care, hospital stay, associated diseases, main complications and medical condition when discharge.

Results:

The age group 30-39 years (31.3 %) predominated in both non-smokers (17.4 %) and smokers (13.9 %), mostly female (56.9 %), with respiratory symptoms such as congestion (35.0 %) and nasal secretion (25.6 %) predominating in smokers, being necessary the hospitalization of the greater number of the latter in better equipped centers (16.3 %) and in hospitals (18.6 %), where they admitted for more than 5 days (81.4 %), for also presenting arterial hypertension (13.9 %) and diabetes mellitus (8.2 %), developing pneumonia (12.8 %) and bronchopneumonia (12.8 %) as the more frequent complications in smokers.

Conclusions:

It is concluded that COVID-19 predominated in females, between 30 and 39 years old, who had nasal secretion as predominant symptom, remained more days hospitalized for presenting pulmonary inflammatory processes, discharging the totality of patients improved or cured.

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