Table 2.
Comparative clinical information for recurrent and non-recurrent groups
| Patients N = 990 |
Overall (n, %) | No Recurrence (n, %) N = 834 |
Recurrence (n, %) N = 156 |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Duration of symptoms |
≤3 days | 293 (30%) | 256 (31%) | 37 (23%) | 0.12 |
| 4–7 days | 479 (48%) | 402 (48%) | 77 (49%) | 0.81 | |
| >7 days | 218 (22%) | 176 (21%) | 42 (27%) | 0.13 | |
| Fever | 427 (43%) | 363 (44%) | 64 (41%) | 0.56 | |
| Sore throat | 990 (100%) | 834 (100%) | 156 (100%) | - | |
|
Worsening of symptoms |
716 (72%) | 592 (71%) | 124 (79%) | 0.03 | |
| Otalgia | 577 (58%) | 478 (57%) | 99 (63%) | 0.15 | |
| Trismus | 561 (57%) | 457 (55%) | 104 (67%) | 0.006 | |
| Cough | 58 (6%) | 51 (6%) | 7 (5%) | 0.43 | |
| Voice change | 574 (58%) | 472 (57%) | 102 (65%) | 0.04 | |
| Dysphagia | 624 (63%) | 512 (61%) | 112 (72%) | 0.01 | |
| Dyspnea | 47 (5%) | 40 (5%) | 7 (5%) | 0.87 | |
| Anorexia | 468 (47%) | 387 (46%) | 81 (52%) | 0.21 | |
| Neck pain | 192 (19%) | 160 (19%) | 32 (21%) | 0.70 | |
| Lymphadenopathy | 573 (58%) | 468 (56%) | 105 (67%) | 0.009 |