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Volume 27, Number 5—May 2021
Research

Symptom Diary–Based Analysis of Disease Course among Patients with Mild Coronavirus Disease, Germany, 2020

Patricia Nicole Wiegele1, Iyad Kabar1, Laura Kerschke, Christopher Froemmel, Anna Hüsing-Kabar, Hartmut Schmidt, Elena Vorona, Richard Vollenberg, and Phil-Robin TepasseComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University Hospital Muenster Department of Medicine B for Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, and Clinical Infectiology, Muenster, Germany (P.N. Wiegele, I. Kabar, C. Froemmel, A. Hüsing-Kabar, H. Schmidt, E. Vorona, R. Vollenberg, P.-R. Tepasse); University of Muenster Institute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, Muenster (L. Kerschke)

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Table 3

Factors associated with severe COVID-19 symptom intensity within 20 days of symptom onset among 313 COVID-19 patients participating in a symptom diary–based analysis of COVID-19 disease course, Germany, 2020*

Symptom Age
 Female
 BMI
OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value OR (95% CI) p value
Loss of taste 0.977 (0.95–1.01) 0.117 2.796 (1.35–5.88) 0.006 0.965 (0.89–1.05) 0.385
Loss of smell 0.968 (0.95–0.99) 0.004 2.694 (1.53–4.78) 0.001 1.000 (0.93–1.08) 0.989

*BMI, body mass index; COVID-19, coronavirus disease; OR, odds ratio..

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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