A Comprehensive Comparison of Clinical Presentation and Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients with COVID-19 during Wave 1 versus Wave 2 at a Tertiary Care Center, India
Table 2
COVID-19 related symptoms in KTRs in both waves.
Symptoms
Total (n = 156)
Wave 1 (n = 72)
Wave 2 (n = 84)
p value
n (%)
n (%)
n (%)
Fever
140 (89.7)
62 (86.1)
78 (92.9)
0.166
Cough
117 (75.0)
51 (70.8)
66 (78.6)
0.266
Sore throat
53 (34.0)
18 (25.0)
35 (41.7)
0.028
Body aches
77 (49.4)
27 (37.5)
50 (59.5)
0.006
Breathing difficulty
48 (30.8)
27 (37.5)
21 (25.0)
0.092
Loss of smell
22 (14.1)
4 (5.6)
18 (21.4)
0.005
Distaste
36 (23.1)
10 (13.9)
26 (31.0)
0.012
Loose motions
32 (20.5)
7 (9.7)
25 (29.8)
0.002
Extremes weakness
9 (5.8)
6 (8.2)
3 (3.6)
0.203
Altered sensorium
13 (8.3)
7 (9.7)
6 (7.1)
0.561
Running nose
16 (10.3)
1 (1.4)
15 (17.9)
0.001$
Incidental
4 (2.6)
3 (4.2)
1 (1.2)
0.336$
Data represents the frequency distribution of the study population as n(%). $Fisher’s exact test.
