Sha'ari Ngadiman's research while affiliated with Selangor State Health Department and other places

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Objective: Various public health and social measures have been used during the COVID-19 outbreak, including lockdowns, contact-tracing, isolation and quarantine. The objective of this manuscript is to describe outbreaks of COVID-19 in Selangor, Malaysia, the public health strategies used and the observed impact of the measures on the epidemic curv...
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Background: Pre-existing comorbidities can predict severe disease requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission among COVID-19 cases. We compared comorbidities, clinical features and other predictive factors between COVID-19 patients requiring ICU admission for intubation/mechanical ventilation and all other COVID-19 cases in Selangor, Malaysia....

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... Older COVID-19 patients are more prone to develop severe COVID-19 infection as they are at a greater risk of developing acute respiratory depressed syndrome (ARDS). Besides, the proportion of COVID-19 patients who required mechanical ventilation increase with age, whereby, the infected individual aged 60 and above is 4 times higher as compared to younger age 24 . The previous study in China also proved that older age is significantly associated with severe COVID-19 and death due to COVID-19 [25][26][27][28] . ...
... Individuals between the ages of 18 and 40 were the most commonly infected population based on our analysis. This finding is consistent with many studies conducted locally (22,23) and internationally (24)(25)(26). ...