Immune status determined as per guidelines of Ayurveda found associated with clinical outcomes of COVID-19 disease - Results of a cross-sectional pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A key public health priority during the emergence of a novel pathogen is probing the factors contributing in clinical severity of the disease COVID-19. Moreover, analysis of the determined clinical outcomes is required and thus, modifiable predictor values need to identified. In Ayurveda, outcome of a disease is a multivariate function and this exploratory work is an attempt to identify one such factor "Vyadhiksamatwa" (immune status).

Materials and methods

A questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in fifty diagnosed cases of COVID-19. Study participants were subjected to a questionnaire to assess relationship between the three determinants of the disease - exposure, clinical severity, and Vyadhiksamatwa.

Results

Clinical seve

SUBMITTER: Sharma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8141726 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature