Review Article

Predictive Symptoms and Signs of Severe Dengue Disease for Patients with Dengue Fever: A Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Basic features of the eligible studies.

Author (publication year)Study designPopulationGenderVomiting/nauseaBleedingHeadacheAbdominal painRetroorbital painRashesDiarrheaHepatomegalyLethargyTourniquet test
DF (M/F)SD (M/F)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)DF (Y/N)SD (Y/N)

Ahmed et al. (2001) [17]ProspectiveChildren4/225/4116/1046/022/434/127/1910/363/2324/226/208/380/2636/10
Narayanan et al. (2002) [21]Prospective Children22/219/734/915/123/2016/013/304/1210/334/123/404/124/391/1519/2412/411/323/135/389/7
Endy et al. (2002) [19]ProspectiveChildren44/8914/52/1301/1882/5014/520/1116/136/1251/185/1271/1843/896/13
Phuong et al. (2004) [22]ProspectiveChildren178/134234/8556/25636/283140/16788/230156/156234/84106/166128/145
Carlos et al. (2005) [18]ProspectiveChildren143/9672/4811/2216/10569/16851/680/2384/115
Shah et al. (2006) [9]ProspectiveChildren11/087/20/1168/2111/087/29/287/211/087/20/1177/1211/087/210/115/15
Malavige et al. (2006) [23]ProspectiveAdult18/1551/245/2837/3826/745/303/3014/617/2624/5110/2339/36
Lee et al. (2006) [24]RetrospectiveBoth177/235119/113
Riaz et al. (2009) [27]Cross-sectionalBoth134/3583/266/16389/2023/14613/9685/8461/480/1691/10855/11437/7210/1592/1071/1681/108
Lee et al. (2009) [25]RetrospectiveAdult1183/67253/29604/125129/53606/124916/66252/160314/685/18500/82887/96849/33
Priyadarshini et al. (2010) [10]ProspectiveBoth90/6944/18101/5833/2929/13031/3134/1252/6031/12826/36
Khan et al. (2010) [8]RetrospectiveBoth99/6230/1093/6827/136/15529/1121/1402/386/801/1044/11731/926/1355/35
Giraldo et al. (2011) [7]RetrospectiveChildren77/7416/1496/5523/751/10014/1692/5917/1378/7322/818/1334/2663/8816/1429/1225/2527/1247/2354/9720/10
Falconar et al. (2012) [20]ProspectiveBoth13/154/113/285/00/285/022/64/10/282/38/205/0
Karoli et al. (2012) [26]Cross-sectionalBoth13/8342/077/1928/1426/7012/3047/4925/17
Sirivichayakul et al. (2012) [11]ProspectiveChildren95/2832/2107/1625/959/6425/935/8813/2153/7018/1621/10217/1723/1006/28

Note: “M”: male; “F”: female; “Y”: yes, the group has the symptom; “N”: no, the group has no symptom. “—”: no statistics.