Clinical and hospitalisation predictors of COVID-19 in the first month of the pandemic, Portugal.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 mainly presents as a respiratory disease with flu-like symptoms, however, recent findings suggest that non-respiratory symptoms can occur early in the infection and cluster together in different groups in different regions. We collected surveillance data among COVID-19 suspected cases tested in mainland Portugal during the first wave of the pandemic, March-April 2020. A multivariable logistic-regression analysis was performed to ascertain the effects of age, sex, prior medical condition and symptoms on the likelihood of testing positive and hospitalisation. Of 25,926 COVID-19 suspected cases included in this study, 5,298 (20%) tested positive. Symptoms were grouped into ten clusters, of which two main ones: one with cough and fever and another with the remainder. There was a highe

SUBMITTER: Perez Duque M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8604361 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature