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ArticleSN comprehensive clinical medicine2020

Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of 6635 COVID-19 Patients: a Pooled Analysis.

Nirmaljot Kaur, Ishita Gupta, Harmandeep Singh, Rutu Karia, Aisha Ashraf, Anam Habib, Urvish K Patel, Preeti Malik

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Article in SN comprehensive clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nirmaljot KaurDepartment of Internal Medicine, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, India.
Ishita GuptaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Kangra, India.
Harmandeep SinghDepartment of Internal Medicine, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, India.
Rutu KariaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Anna Medical College and Research Centre, Montagne Blanche, Mauritius.
Aisha AshrafDepartment of Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029 USA.
Anam HabibDepartment of Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029 USA.
Urvish K PatelDepartment of Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029 USA.
Preeti MalikDepartment of Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9427-0225
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USInstitute of Medical Sciences · INDr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An unidentified pneumonia outbreak was first observed in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. WHO officially named the disease, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and declared it as pandemic on Mar 11, 2020. Globally, there are more than 3 million confirmed cases with nearly 200,000 deaths. Hence, we aimed to perform a systematic review and pooled analysis of the current published literature on COVID-19 to provide an insight on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients. A systematic search of published peer-reviewed articles that reported cases with demographical and clinical features of real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR)-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection using MOOSE guidelines was conducted from December 1, 2019, to April 27, 2020, and 50 eligible articles were included for the final analysis. Review articles, opinion articles, and letters not presenting original data as well as studies with incomplete information were excluded. We included a total of 6635 patients from 50 articles, with 54.5 % being male. The predominant symptoms were fever (80.3%), cough (64.2%), and fatigue/myalgia (36.5%) and other symptoms including dyspnea, chest pain, and sore throat. We also found patients with GI symptoms like diarrhea (9.2%) and nausea/vomiting (5.2%). Comorbidities were found in 3,435 (51.7%) patients with the most common being hypertension (22.67%) followed by diabetes mellitus (12.78%). COVID-19 pandemic is not only leading a huge burden on health care facilities but significant disruption in the world society. Patients with coexisting comorbidities are at higher risk and need more utilization of health care resources. As this virus is spreading globally, all countries have to join hands and prepare at all levels of human resources, infrastructure, and facilities to combat the COVID-19 disease.

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2019-nCoVcoronavirus diseaseCOVID-19epidemiologyoutbreakpandemicSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32838160
PMCPMC7343407
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