Age-Related Changes in Clinical Presentation of Covid-19: the EPICOVID19 Web-Based Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The influence of aging and multimorbidity on Covid-19 clinical presentation is still unclear.

Objectives

We investigated whether the association between symptoms (or cluster of symptoms) and positive SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) was different according to patients' age and presence of multimorbidity.

Methods

The study included 6680 participants in the EPICOVID19 web-based survey, who reported information about symptoms from February to June 2020 and who underwent at least one NPS. Symptom clusters were identified through hierarchical cluster analysis. The associations between symptoms (and clusters of symptoms) and positive NPS were investigated through multivariable binary logistic regression in the sample stratified by age (<65 vs ≥65 years) and n

SUBMITTER: Trevisan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7846211 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature