TY  - JOUR
TI  - Investigation of Myalgia and Related Factors in COVID-19 Quarantine Center Patients- A Retrospective Study
AB  - Background: This study was conducted retrospectively to examine myalgia and related factors in patients who did not have the symptoms of illness severe enough to be hospitalized in a quarantine center due to Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). A retrospective evaluation was performed to examine the relationship between myalgia that started after infection and age, gender, chronic disease, presence of lung involvement and other COVID-19 symptoms such as cough, sore throat, headache, nausea, diarrhea, loss of taste/smell, nasal congestion, dyspnea, and fatigue. Materials and Methods: Four hundred-eighty-seven patients hospitalized in the quarantine center between June 2020 and September 2020 were evaluated. Myalgia, age, gender, chronic disease status (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiac and pulmonary diseases and endocrinological diseases), other COVID-19 related symptoms (cough, sore throat, headache, nausea, diarrhea, loss of taste/ smell, nasal congestion, dyspnea, fatigue), and radiological findings of COVID-19 infected patients were retrospectively examined. Frequency tables and descriptive statistics were used to interpret the findings. Results: Myalgia was seen at a rate of 33.3% and lung tomography findings were positive at a rate of 39.6% even in patients infected with COVID-19, who did not require hospitalization. Although myalgia did not seem to be associated with age, gender, and chronic diseases, 64% of patients with myalgia had other COVID-19 related symptoms such as cough, sore throat, headache, nausea, diarrhea, loss of taste/smell, nasal congestion, dyspnea, and fatigue. Conclusion: Symptoms most commonly associated with myalgia include cough, weakness and sore throat. It is important to question other symptoms and monitor lung findings, and to closely follow uppatients who are not hospitalized.
AU  - ozlu, aysun
AU  - ÜNVER, GAMZE
AU  - Bakçepınar, Gülsüm
AU  - özlü, can
AU  - gökpınar, hasan hüseyin
DO  - 10.4274/hamidiyemedj.galenos.2021.28190
PY  - 2021
JO  - Hamidiye Medical Journal 
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SN  - 2718-0956
SP  - 111
EP  - 115
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/504864
ER  -