Headache, anosmia, ageusia and other neurological symptoms in COVID-19: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neurological symptoms are frequent among patients with COVID-19. Little is known regarding the repercussions of neurological symptoms for patients and how these symptoms are related to one another.

Objectives

To determine whether there is an association between the neurological symptoms in patients with COVID-19, and to characterize the headache.

Method

This was a cross-sectional study. All hospital inpatients and health workers at the Hospital Universitario Oswaldo Cruz with a PCR-confirmed COVID-19 infection between March and June 2020 were considered for the study and were interviewed by telephone at least 2-months after the acute phase of the disease. These patients were identified by the hospital epidemiological surveillance department. A semi-structur

SUBMITTER: Sampaio Rocha-Filho PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8721484 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature