Table 1.

Follow-up studies looked on prevalence of cough after recovery from COVID-19

Author	Country	Sample	Mean/Median age (years)	Age Male %	Severe COVID (%)	Follow-up Period (month)	Prevalence of Cough
Reaz Mahmud et al.[9]	Dhaka, Bangladesh	355	39.8	58.3%	11	1	18.3%
Melina Michael et al.[10]	Metanalysis study (BMJ) 12 countries	5031	Not Applicable	52%	NOT REPORTED	>3	8.17%
Angelo Carfi et al.[11]	Rome, Italy	143	56.5	63%	53.8	2	16%
Destin Groff et al.[12]	Systematic Review of 57 studies	250351	54.4	56%	79	6	13.1% [5.3-22.6%]
Menges et al.[13]	Zurich, Switzerland	431	47	50%	NOT REPORTED	8	39%
Qu Guangbo et al.[14]	Multicentric, Anhui Province and Hubei Province	540	47.5	50%	9.4	3	11%
Fabio Anastasio et al.[15]	Italy	379	45.9	56%	60.8	4	6.1%
Rebecca F. D’Cruz et al.[16]	King’s College Hospital, UK	119	58.7	62%	100%	2	7%
Taquet M et al.[17]	Oxford University Hospitals, UK	273618	46.3	44.4%	NOT REPORTED	6	12.6%
Xiong et al.[18]	Wuhan, China	538	52	45.5%	38.4%	3	7.1%
Arnold et al.[19]	Bristol, UK	110	60	56%	16.4%	3	11%
Bellan M et al.[20]	Northern Italy	238	61	59.7%	72%	4	6%
Dennis A et al.[21]	London, UK	201	44	29%	18.4%	4	73.6%
Han X et al.[22]	Wuhan, China	114	54	70%	21%	6	6.1%
Stavem K et al.[23]	Lorenskog, Norway	434	49.8	44%	Not reported, All OPD patients included	4	6%
Karaarslan et al.[24]	Ankara, Turkey	300	52.5	59.7%	Not mentioned	1	14
Huang et al.[25]	China	1733	57	52%	68%	6	4%
Moreno-Perez O et al.[26]	Spain	277	56	52.7%	65.7%	3.5	21.3%
Rosales Castillo et al.[27]	Spain	118	60.16	55.9%	7.6%	2	65.3%
Fernández-de-Las-Peñas et al.[28]	Multicentre study @ Spain	1950	61	53%	6.6%	11.2	2.5%
Naik S et al.[29]	Northern India	1234	41.6	69.4%	33%	3	2.1%
Sathyamurthi et al.[30]	Armonk, New York	279	71.1	63.8%	41.6%	3	4.3%