COVID-19 in Patients With a Past History of Chemical War Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study in Southern Iran.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to determine whether COVID-19 is associated with a different presenting clinical picture or a more severe course of illness in people with a past history of chemical war injury.

Methods

This is a multicenter retrospective study in Fars Province, Iran, from August 22 to October 4, 2020. People with a past history of chemical war injury and COVID-19 were studied. Two age- and sex-matched control groups, double the size of the patient group each, from the same database of patients with COVID-19 who were hospitalized at the same time (ie, healthy controls and pseudocontrols).

Results

A total of 46 people with a past history of chemical war injury, 92 healthy controls, and 92 pseudocontrols were studied. People with COVID-19 and a past history of

SUBMITTER: Emami A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8209438 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature