Masahiko Okada, Noriyuki Ishida, Sho Kanzaki, Ichiro Kawada, Kengo Nagashima, Hideki Terai, Gaku Hiruma, Ho Namkoong, Takanori Asakura, Katsunori Masaki, Keiko Ohgino, Jun Miyata, Shotaro Chubachi, Nobuhiro Kodama, Shunsuke Maeda, Satoshi Sakamoto, Masaki Okamoto, Yoji Nagasaki, Akira Umeda, Kazuya Miyagawa, Hisato Shimada, Kazuhiro Minami, Rie Hagiwara, Makoto Ishii, Yasunori Sato, Koichi Fukunaga
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the clinical features of long COVID cases presenting with upper respiratory symptoms, a topic not yet fully elucidated. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: A multicenter study involving 26 medical facilities in Japan. METHODS: Inclusion criteria were patients aged ≥18 years old with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis via severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 polymerase chain reaction or antigen testing, who were hospitalized at the participating medical facilities...
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