Factors associated with the presence of headache in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and impact on prognosis: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Headache is one of the most frequent neurologic manifestations in COVID-19. We aimed to analyze which symptoms and laboratory abnormalities were associated with the presence of headache and to evaluate if patients with headache had a higher adjusted in-hospital risk of mortality.

Methods

Retrospective cohort study. We included all consecutive patients admitted to the Hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection between March 8th and April 11th, 2020. We collected demographic data, clinical variables and laboratory abnormalities. We used multivariate regression analysis.

Results

During the study period, 576 patients were included, aged 67.2 (SD: 14.7), and 250/576 (43.3%) being female. Presence of headache was described by 137 (23.7%) patients. The all-cau

SUBMITTER: Trigo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7388434 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature