Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Background- Patients with COVID-19 may manifest musculoskeletal symptoms; myalgia is frequentlydetected in COVID-19 infected patients. The study aims to examine the incidence of musculoskeletalmanifestations in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and its correlation with the disease severity, and thepatient’s outcomes. Further, it attempts to correlate the disease severity with the smoking.Method-A sample of one thousand (1000) COVID-19 infected patients from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region,were examined in an observational cross-sectional study to obtain relevant data for the patients treatedin the COVID-19 care centres in Erbil city. The study lasted from 15 August 2020 to 15 June 2021.Conclusion- The study shows that the musculoskeletal manifestations are frequent in COVID-19infected patients; 79.4% of patients had fatigue, 66.8% had myalgia, 56.9% had backache, and 41.5%had arthralgia, fatigue is the most common symptom. The smokers manifest severe or critical conditionsof the disease.
Institutions: Kurdistan Regional Government, Hawler Medical University
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4226019685