Prevalence and characteristics of fever in adult and paediatric patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A systematic review and meta-analysis of 17515 patients

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 started to spread globally since December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Fever has been observed as one of the most common clinical manifestations, although the prevalence and characteristi...

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Published in:PloS one 2021-04, Vol.16 (4), p.e0249788-e0249788
Main Authors: Islam, Md Asiful, Kundu, Shoumik, Alam, Sayeda Sadia, Hossan, Tareq, Kamal, Mohammad Amjad, Hassan, Rosline
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Biochemistry
Biology
Body temperature
Case reports
Child
Children
Chills
Coronaviridae
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - metabolism
Data collection
Diagnosis
Distribution
Editing
Epidemics
Fever
Fever - epidemiology
Fever - metabolism
Fever - virology
Genetics
Health aspects
Hematology
High temperature
Humans
Medical research
Medicine and Health Sciences
Meta-analysis
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Molecular biology
Municipalities
Pandemics
Patients
Pediatrics
People and Places
Physical Sciences
Physiological aspects
Pregnancy
Research and Analysis Methods
Research facilities
Respiratory diseases
SARS-CoV-2 - metabolism
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Spreadsheets
Subgroups
Viral diseases
Womens health
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Summary:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 started to spread globally since December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Fever has been observed as one of the most common clinical manifestations, although the prevalence and characteristics of fever in adult and paediatric COVID-19 patients is inconclusive. We aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the overall pooled prevalence of fever and chills in addition to fever characteristics (low, medium, and high temperature) in both adult and paediatric COVID-19 patients. The protocol of this systematic review and meta-analysis was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020176327). PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar databases were searched between 1st December 2019 and 3rd April 2020 without language restrictions. Both adult (≥18 years) and paediatric (
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0249788