Post-COVID-19 syndrome among symptomatic COVID-19 patients: A prospective cohort study in a tertiary care center of Bangladesh

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 4; p. e0249644
• Main Authors: Mahmud, Reaz, Rahman, Md. Mujibur, Rassel, Mohammad Aftab, Monayem, Farhana Binte, Sayeed, S. K. Jakaria Been, Islam, Md. Shahidul, Islam, Mohammed Monirul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.04.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Asthma; Asymptomatic; Bacterial diseases; Bangladesh; Bangladesh - epidemiology; Biology and Life Sciences; Blood coagulation; Chronic diseases; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Chronic infection; Clotting; Cohort analysis; Complications; Complications and side effects; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - complications; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - therapy; Demographic aspects; Dyspnea; Epidemics; Etiology; Fatigue - epidemiology; Fatigue - etiology; Female; Fever; Headache; Health risks; Heart diseases; Hospitals; Humans; Hypothalamus; Hypoxia; Infections; Male; Medical schools; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental disorders; Middle Aged; Migraine; Myocardial infarction; Myocarditis; Oxygen saturation; Patients; Physiological aspects; Pneumonia; Polymerase chain reaction; Prospective Studies; Recovery; Respiratory distress syndrome; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; SARS-CoV-2; Sepsis; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Signs and symptoms; Syndrome; Tertiary Care Centers; Viral diseases; Viral infections; Bangladesh

Post-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) syndrome includes persistence of symptoms beyond viral clearance and fresh development of symptoms or exaggeration of chronic diseases within a month after initial clinical and virological cure of the disease with a viral etiology. We aimed to determine the incide...