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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12710/18113
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dc.contributor.authorGrosu, Oxana
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-07T16:31:31Z
dc.date.available2021-10-07T16:31:31Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationGROSU, Oxana. Headaches in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary results of a national survey. In: The Moldovan Medical Journal. 2021, vol. 64, no 3 (Neuro Congress Issue), p. 44. ISSN 2537-6381.
dc.identifier.issn2537-6381
dc.identifier.issn2537-6373
dc.identifier.urihttp://moldmedjournal.md/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Congres-Neuro-2021-Spaltul-11.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.usmf.md/handle/20.500.12710/18113
dc.description.abstractBackground: Headache in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is a largely discussed topic being divided into a pre-infection headache, headache attributed to COVID-19 infection, and post-COVID headache. The aim of the research was to analyze the evolution of headache syndrome in patients who have experienced COVID-19 infection. Material and methods: An online survey was conducted in people with COVID-19 and headache using a validated and ethically approved questionnaire and data were collected for 3 months (February - May 2021) on demographics, comorbidities, clinical signs of COVID-19 infection, headache before, during, and after COVID-19 infection, signs of anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. Results: The study showed that half of the respondents had different forms of headache before the COVID-19 infection. During the period of infection with Sars-Cov-2 – 91% of respondents experienced headaches attributed to COVID-19, which were intense, generalized, associated with vertigo, nausea, autonomic signs, pronounced asthenia (80%), and pain with another localization (85.5%). Persistent headaches after COVID-19 were reported by 62.7% of respondents and 16.7% of them – severe forms. Conclusions: The headache attributed to COVID-19 infection was prevalent in the presented group being intense and associated with pronounced asthenia. The percentage of patients with persistent headaches in the post-COVID period is worryingly high which increases the degree of functional disability of patients, individual and social burden.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Scientific Medical Association of the Republic of Moldovaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe Moldovan Medical Journalen_US
dc.subjectheadacheen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectsurveyen_US
dc.subjectpost-COVIDen_US
dc.titleHeadaches in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary results of a national surveyen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
Appears in Collections:The Moldovan Medical Journal, Vol. 64, No 3, September 2021

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