Characterization of the different signs and symptoms of COVID-19 in patients attending the Family Medicine Unit no. 38, Tampico, Tamaulipas

Abstract

COVID-19 is a s a disease caused by infection with the new beta coronavirus of the Coronaviridae family, SARS-CoV-2, which stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. This outbreak started in a seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. To describe the characteristics of the different signs, and symptoms caused by COVID-19 in patients attended at the Family Medicine Unit No. 38 of the IMSS in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. A descriptive, cross-sectional, and retrospective study carried out in adult patients over 18 years of age of both genders, with a confirmed diagnosis of positive COVID-19 with rapid test or PCR. A descriptive database was created using the program SPSS v. 23 with the collection of information from medical notes information from the ARIMAC electronic clinical record of patients with a diagnosis of U071 COVID-19 and who had received medical care in the respiratory triage, and continuous medical care services, from January to December 2021, where the frequency of the main signs and symptoms was evaluated. In the female gender the following symptoms were more frequent: headache 77.8%, cough 69.6%, odynophagia 62.4%. In the male gender the following symptoms were more frequent: cough 71.1%, headache 70.1%, fever 67%.  The symptoms with similar frequency of presentation in both genders were: headache, cough, fever, odynophagia, myalgia, arthralgia. The signs and symptoms presented in our study of patients with COVID-19 are similar to those described in the literature.