Bibliographic citations
Contreras, P., (2024). Descripción de síntomas frecuentes y persistentes de COVID-19 en asistentes a centros del adulto mayor [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/15579
Contreras, P., Descripción de síntomas frecuentes y persistentes de COVID-19 en asistentes a centros del adulto mayor []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/15579
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title = "Descripción de síntomas frecuentes y persistentes de COVID-19 en asistentes a centros del adulto mayor",
author = "Contreras Carmona, Pavel Jaime",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2024"
}
Introduction. COVID-19 not only acutely compromises people's health but can also generate symptoms that remain after acute infection, in other words for more than three weeks. Moreover, older adults may have different symptomatologic patterns than other age groups. Objective. To describe the acute and persistent symptoms of COVID-19 in Senior Centers users of health insurance. Methods. A descriptive case series study was conducted by telephone call to older adults from five Senior Centers, who had reported being positive for COVID-19 in the telephone monitoring of the last three months and were asked about the associated symptoms, with a follow-up of up to four months. Results. The most frequent acute symptoms were cough, fever, headache, and myalgia. The mean number of symptoms per person was one to three. A 4,4% of the cases had long covid. Conclusions. Older adults in Senior Centers have a low frequency of acute post-covid symptoms.
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