Scientists at king’s College London have identified six different clusters, or types COVID-19. As reported by Sky News, they differ in symptoms and severity of the disease.
the First type – cold like symptoms without fever. It is noted headache, loss of smell, muscle aches, cough, sore throat, chest pain.
the Second – “flu-like” with fever – the symptoms of the first type is added hoarseness, loss of appetite and fever fever.
the Third type is gastrointestinal tract. Patients complain of headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, sore throat, chest pain, temperature. The cough is absent, but may cause diarrhea.
the Following three types are marked as heavy, they are divided into three levels.
in severe first-degree level is named such symptoms as fatigue, headache, loss of smell, cough, fever, hoarseness, chest pain. Second degree – a headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain. For comprehensive fatigue adds confusion and muscle pain. Finally, the third hard layer makes all of these symptoms – headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain, fatigue, confusion, muscle pain, shortness of breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain. Thus, confusion and abdominal pain are the symptoms most severe forms.
such findings, scientists have meticulously examined the data on the symptomatology of 1600 patients in the US and the UK. Information they have collected with the help of mobile applications COVID Symptom Study, which was created specifically for the study of symptoms.
based On the data of the study participants were divided into six groups according to the severity of the disease.
the analysis by the presence of the symptoms will allow you to predict how difficult a particular case will proceed disease. According to study co-author Dr. Klery Stevens, if in the first five days to determine which category the patient belongs to, it is possible to be proactive and prevent the development of severe complications. Such gradation will help in making treatment decisions during a potential second wave of coronavirus.
patients first to third types of the disease COVID-19 respiratory support need only 1.5-4.4% of cases.
In the fourth form, the ventilator was needed in 8.6% of cases, with the fifth form – every tenth patient.
In the sixth, the most severe form, more than 50 percent of patients require hospitalization. Respiratory support took almost 20 percent of patients. It is noted that, as a rule, the elderly, or relief��and having comorbidities.
