New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) People suffering from common laryngopharyngeal dysfunction like chronic cough, hoarseness, recurrent throat clearing, especially after Covid, may be at significant risk of developing a heart attack or stroke, warns a study on Wednesday. Res...
ABSTRACT:Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), also known as post-COVID-19 condition or post-COVID syndrome, can affect anyone infected with SARS-CoV-2, regardless of age or the severity of the initial symptoms of COVID-19. Long COVID/PASC is the continu...
Second, the present study defined disease according to ICD-10 codes; thus, the findings should be interpreted with caution29,30. The potential misclassification of dyspnea as asthma, particularly due to the diagnostic complexities introduced by COVID-19, represents a limitation. Also, although we ...
The Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) have been characterized; however, the burden of PASC remains unknown. Here we used the healthcare databases of the US Department of Veterans Affairs to build a cohort of 181,384 people with COVID-19
1 Given the uncertainties in defining postacute sequelae of COVID-19, diagnosis in clinical practice remains challenging. To improve the documentation of post–COVID-19, a new International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) diagnosis code (U09.9 Post CO...
(8) defined outcomes based on PCC ICD-10 code U09.9 (whereas, in the primary definition, this was based on a set of 13 predefined post–acute sequelae of COVID-19); and (9) defined outcomes based on the first occurrence of any individual sequela (whereas, in the primary definition, ...
Results: A total of 104 patients with post-COVID-19 chronic cough were enrolled in this study (ICS group, n = 51; NICS group, n = 53). The most common symptoms accompanying post-COVID-19 chronic cough were sputum (58.7%, 61/104) and dyspnea (48.1%, 50/104). Seventy-one (82.6%...
COVID-19 infection. However, symptoms related to chronic conditions may have become more persistent or more severe due to COVID-19 infection and may clinically be considered post-acute sequelae. Excluding symptoms which may have been mentioned in the pre-COVID period would likely grossly under ...
We coded 66 294 ICD-10-CM codes into 439 deduplicated clusters, beginning with the widely used Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clinical Classification Software Refined24 and extending the categories to include more refined autoimmune, mental health disorders, and COVID-19–related ...
with COVID-19 cases matched separately with influenza or RTI, including influenza; matched for age, sex, race, ethnicity and co-morbiditiesb (influenza n = 105 579, RTI n = 236 038) ICD-10 codes, EMR 9/9 COVID-19 had significantly higher hazard compared to both the matched influenza ...