Yıl:2022   Cilt: 12   Sayı: 1   Alan: Sağlık Bilimleri

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Mohanad A. ALİ ,Khair Aldeen M. SULAİMAN,Maysoon AL,HAİDERİ,Mohd Ashraf THOKER

Unusual Presentation of Coronavirus Disease, Survey Study

This work was designed to highlight some of the mysteries of the disease, especially neurological symptoms. A retrospective clinicoepedemiological study was conducted on a randomized sample of 201 patients in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq of both genders and different age groups affected with coronavirus disease. The signs and symptoms of the disease were recorded by the patients themselves through a self-report questionnaire designed to put the age, gender, symptoms, and severity of symptoms. The data collected were processed and analyzed statistically by a professional statistician using SPSS program version 23, three methods were used for estimating the correlation between the disease and each symptom as well as between the symptoms themselves. The distribution of symptoms according to age group and gender were also estimated. Each case was dealt with separately according to its own merits. The most common symptom observed in this study was fever 75.9%, next is cough 43.9%, malaise 38.9%, headache 38.4, loss of smell 36.5%, dyspnea 34%, loss of taste 32%, muscle pain 21.7%, amnesia 20.9%, loss of concentration 19.4%, dizziness 13.3%, vomiting 13.3%, tiredness 11.8%, diarrhea 9.6%, chest pain 8.7%, loss of consciousness 4.9%, throat pain 4.9%, gastric pain 1.5%, abdominal colic 1.5%, cold sensation 1.5%, running nose 0.5% and skin rash 0.5% out of the total (201).

Anahtar Kelimeler: Coronavirus disease, Mysteries of disease, neurological symptoms


Unusual Presentation of Coronavirus Disease, Survey Study

This work was designed to highlight some of the mysteries of the disease, especially neurological symptoms. A retrospective clinicoepedemiological study was conducted on a randomized sample of 201 patients in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq of both genders and different age groups affected with coronavirus disease. The signs and symptoms of the disease were recorded by the patients themselves through a self-report questionnaire designed to put the age, gender, symptoms, and severity of symptoms. The data collected were processed and analyzed statistically by a professional statistician using SPSS program version 23, three methods were used for estimating the correlation between the disease and each symptom as well as between the symptoms themselves. The distribution of symptoms according to age group and gender were also estimated. Each case was dealt with separately according to its own merits. The most common symptom observed in this study was fever 75.9%, next is cough 43.9%, malaise 38.9%, headache 38.4, loss of smell 36.5%, dyspnea 34%, loss of taste 32%, muscle pain 21.7%, amnesia 20.9%, loss of concentration 19.4%, dizziness 13.3%, vomiting 13.3%, tiredness 11.8%, diarrhea 9.6%, chest pain 8.7%, loss of consciousness 4.9%, throat pain 4.9%, gastric pain 1.5%, abdominal colic 1.5%, cold sensation 1.5%, running nose 0.5% and skin rash 0.5% out of the total (201).

Keywords: Coronavirus disease, Mysteries of disease, neurological symptoms


Atıf İçin

Ali, M. A., Sulaiman, K. A. M., Al-Haideri, M. & Thoker, M. A. (2022). Unusual Presentation of Coronavirus Disease, Survey Study. Journal of Current Researches on Health Sector, 12 (1), 97-104.


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