Background Since December 2019, (COVID‐19) has had a significant impact on global health systems. Because little is known about the clinical characteristics and risk factors connected with COVID‐19 severity in Sudanese patients, it is vital to summarize the clinical characteristics of COVID‐19 patients and to investigate the risk factors linked to COVID‐19 severity. Objectives We aimed to assess the clinical characteristics of COVID‐19 patients and look into risk factors associated with COVID‐19 severity. Methods This is a retrospective cross‐sectional study that took place in two Isolation Centers in Wad Medani, Gezira State, Sudan. Four hundred and eighteen patients were included between May 2020 and May 2021. All COVID‐19 patients over the age of 18 who were proven COVID‐19 positive by nucleic acid testing or had characteristics suggestive of COVID‐19 on a chest CT scan and had a complete medical record in the study period were included. Results The participants in this study were 418 confirmed COVID‐19 cases with a median age of 66.313 years. There were 279 men (66.7%) among the patients. The most prevalent comorbidities were hypertension (n = 195; 46.7%) and diabetes (n = 187; 44.7%). Fever (n = 303; 72.5%), cough (n = 278; 66.5%), and dyspnea (n = 256; 61.2%) were the most prevalent symptoms at the onset of COVID‐19. The overall mortality rate (n = 148) was 35.4%. Patients with severe illness had a mortality rate of 42.3% (n = 118). Older age, anemia, neutrophilia, and lymphocytopenia, as well as higher glucose, HbA1c, and creatinine levels, were all linked to severe COVID‐19, according to the chi‐square test and analysis of variance analysis. Conclusion Sixteen variables were found to be associated with COVID‐19 severity. These patients are more prone to go through a serious infection and as a result have a greater death rate than those who do not have these characteristics.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that is characterized with autoantibodies production with on and off clinical course. It can affect any age or gender, but it has a particular tendency to affect young females, with a female-to-male ratio of about 9:1. 1 SLE can affect almost every organ system with a diverse scale of manifestations. The disease severity can vary from a very mild illness to a systemic life-threatening illness. [2][3][4] Although manifestations can affect almost every system in the body, cardiac and lung manifestations have a significant impact on patients' everyday life and outcome. Respiratory affection can affect the lung, pleura, or lung vasculature with various degrees of affection from an asymptomatic illness to severe respiratory compromise. | CASE HISTORY/ EXAMINATIONA 16-year-old female patient has presented to our accidents and emergency department complaining of fever and coughing of blood for 3 days. Her condition started
Background: As the world is fighting against the COVID19 outbreak most of the countries closed universities nationwide, impacting nearly 80% of students globally. In order to obtain information and to identify differences between medical students the study has been asset. The primary objective of this survey is to better understand the motivations and obstacles for medical students investing their time during COVID 19 obligatory home stay.Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional survey-based study in 333 medical students in medical college of Alzaeim al Azhari university in Sudan. Data from students was collected by using an online self-design questionnaire. The participants approached by the lead investigator through their social media groups by link enabling the individual willing to participate to access a google form containing the study questionnaire. Analyses was carried out using SPSS statistics package version 24 (IBM).Results: (57.1%) of the participants were females and (42.9%) were males. (37.8%) of medical students who participated in the study think that they make use of their time, while (38.1%) don’t think that and (24.1%) don’t know if they make use of their time or not during staying home due to COVID19 outbreak.Conclusion: There is a considerable variation in time investment (making use of time) during staying home due to COVID 19 outbreak according to medical student’s insight. The research results indicate that medical students need more encouragement and facilities to get benefits from their time during the quarantines and such situation in the future.
Background: As the world is fighting against the COVID19 outbreak most of the countries closed universities nationwide, impacting nearly 80% of students globally. In order to obtain information and to identify differences between medical students the study has been asset. The primary objective of this survey is to better understand the motivations and obstacles for medical students investing their time during COVID 19 obligatory home stay.Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional survey-based study in 333 medical students in medical college of Alzaeim al Azhari university in Sudan. Data from students was collected by using an online self-design questionnaire. The participants approached by the lead investigator through their social media groups by link enabling the individual willing to participate to access a google form containing the study questionnaire. Analyses was carried out using SPSS statistics package version 24 (IBM).Results: (57.1%) of the participants were females and (42.9%) were males. (37.8%) of medical students who participated in the study think that they make use of their time, while (38.1%) don’t think that and (24.1%) don’t know if they make use of their time or not during staying home due to COVID19 outbreak. Conclusion: There is a considerable variation in time investment (making use of time) during staying home due to COVID 19 outbreak according to medical student’s insight. The research results indicate that medical students need more encouragement and facilities to get benefits from their time during the quarantines and such situation in the future.
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