Table 3.
Comparison between the symptoms developed in subjects with negative and positive test.
| Symptoms (%) | Negative test (n = 260) |
Positive test (n = 163) |
P |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Required assistance from the general practitioner (%) |
44 (16.9) | 88 (54.0) | <0.001 |
| Required hospitalization (%) | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.6) | 0.738 |
| Fever | 45 (17.3) | 87 (53.4) | <0.001 |
| Shivering | 29 (11.1) | 40 (24.5) | <0.001 |
| Headache | 42 (16.1) | 58 (35.6) | <0.001 |
| Shortness of breath | 17 (6.5) | 22 (13.5) | 0.024 |
| Chest pain | 17 (6.5) | 9 (5.5) | 0.836 |
| Dry cough | 33 (12.7) | 50 (30.7) | <0.001 |
| Productive cough | 16 (6.1) | 17 (10.4) | 0.136 |
| Sore throat | 35 (13.5) | 25 (15.3) | 0.668 |
| Cold | 44 (16.9) | 30 (18.4) | 0.695 |
| Rhinorrhoea | 36 (13.8) | 21 (12.9) | 0.884 |
| Anosmia | 6 (2.3) | 56 (34.3) | <0.001 |
| Ageusia | 6 (2.3) | 55 (33.7) | <0.001 |
| Conjunctivitis | 5 (1.9) | 8 (4.9) | 0.145 |
| Muscular pain | 28 (10.8) | 53 (32.5) | <0.001 |
| Fatigue | 37 (14.2) | 63 (38.6) | <0.001 |
| Diarrhea | 19 (7.3) | 29 (17.8) | 0.001 |
| Nausea | 10 (3.8) | 18 (11.0) | 0.005 |
| Vomiting | 5 (1.9) | 8 (4.9) | 0.145 |
| Lack of appetite | 5 (1.9) | 23 (14.1) | <0.001 |
| Other | 13 (5.0) | 16 (9.8) | 0.074 |
| No symptoms | 111 (42.7) | 29 (17.8) | <0.001 |