Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in patients with tuberculosis and factors associated with the disease severity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data on patients with COVID-19 who have pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are limited. In this study, we compared the clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19/TB and patients with COVID-19 only. In addition, we analyzed the links between the severity of COVID-19 disease and the clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19/TB.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective, anonymized, cross-sectional study of 111 patients who met inclusion criteria for analysis (75 patients with COVID-19/TB and 36 patients with COVID-19).

Results

Patients in both groups (COVID-19/TB vs COVID-19) mainly suffered from fever (72.0% vs 100%, p < 0.001), fatigue (76.0% vs 94.4%, p  =  0.018), chest pain (72.0% vs 36.1%, p < 0.001), followed by cough (60.0% vs 97.2%, p < 0.001) a

SUBMITTER: Parolina L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9040490 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature