Table 4.

Association between symptomatic acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent development of Long COVID-19 symptoms in the primary care setting

Long COVID-19 symptoms	Symptomatic acute SARS-CoV-2 infection (n = 230)	Non symptomatic acute SARS-CoV-2 infection (n = 399)	p-value
At least one symptom	107 (46.5)	46 (11.5)	< 0.001
Abnormal fatigue	38 (16.5)	6 (1.5)	< 0.001
Neurological symptoms	33 (14.4)	10 (2.5)	< 0.001
Respiratory symptoms	20 (8.7)	18 (4.5)	0.038
Psychological symptoms	20 (8.7)	11 (2.8)	0.002
Muscle and joint pains	22 (9.6)	9 (2.3)	< 0.001
Loss of taste – smell	20 (8.7)	1 (0.25)	< 0.001
Gastrointestinal symptoms	12 (5.2)	7 (1.8)	0.026
Dermatological disorders	9 (3.9)	3 (0.75)	0.011
Palpitations and cardiac disorders	4 (1.7)	1 (0.25)	0.062
Other symptoms	3 (1.3)	1 (0.25)	0.141

^*P values were computed by the Fisher’s exact test

Total number of patients = 629. Data are reported as number of cases with percent frequencies in parentheses