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Introduction – Objectives: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic most offices, educational institutions, and businesses were shut down for a certain period. Many people died. Though a large number of people were fortunate to survive, they are still suffering from various physical, mental, emotional, and other health-related issues. The study aimed to find out the ratio of post-COVID-19 syndrome & NCDs among patients who visited the Physiotherapy Department of a local community hospital.
Methodology: It was a cross-sectional study. The research data were collected between October 2021 and October 2023 through face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire about NCDs and post-COVID-19 syndrome. The graduate and specialist physiotherapists interviewed a total of 1727 patients during regular physiotherapy assessment at the Physiotherapy Department of Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Four hundred and thirty-six (436) patients were found COVID-19 positive, each of the patients confirmed that they had positive laboratory investigation reports of either from RtPcR or Antigen test. Three hundred and five (305) of them had a confirmed history of NCDs including diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HTN), and chronic kidney diseases (CKD), and were finally included in this study.
Results and Discussions: Of 436 COVID-19-positive patients 132 housewives in female, and 74 male service holders were the highest; Nurses (1), Garment workers (1), Servants (1), Students (1) in females & Farmers (1), Drivers (1), Politicians (1), Social Activists (1), Teachers (1), Caretakers (1) in males were less identified as having COVID-19 symptoms in different occupations. 51-60 years aged females (75) & 61-70 years aged males (53) were the highest positive COVID-19 age groups. Whereas, no male or female patients were identified with positive COVID-19 in the 0-18 years age groups. Females with a post-graduate qualification (100) and graduate males (88) were the highest and people who could write ‘names only’ (female-0, male-1) were the lowest affected education groups by post-COVID-19.
Among 305 patients with confirmed positive COVID-19 syndrome & NCDs; Physical Weakness (53.51%), Joint Pain (33.25%), Thinking Disorders (29.18%), Muscle Pain (22.52%), Depression (18.59%), Breathing difficulties (15.98%), Dementia (15.70%), Anxiety (14.88%), Angriness (11.99%), Neural Symptoms (9.58%), Increased Heart Rate (5.23%), chest pain (4.16%) were found in our study.
By analyzing the data of NCDs history (305) of positive COVID-19 symptoms patients we found diabetic females (8.5%), males (7.54%); hypertensive females (17.38%), males (29.51%); and diabetic & hypertensive females (19.02%), males (16.72%) were suffering from post covid-19 symptoms. Among them, hypertensive females (9.84%), males (15.7%); diabetic females (3.61%), males (9.84%); diabetic & hypertensive females (10.8%), and males (10.2%) were affected most by physical weakness. On the opposite, only 4.16% of the patients (M- 2.95%, F- 1.31%), were suffering from chest pain.
Conclusion: A large number of patients with positive COVID-19 who had a history of Non-communicable diseases, particularly hypertension are still suffering from physical weakness. Therefore, we recommend that there is an opportunity for research to find out the relationship between hypertension & physical weakness in patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome.
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