Characterisation of asymptomatic patients and efficacy of preventive measures for SARS-CoV-2 infection in a large population of Southern Italy: a cohort study.

BMJ Open · 2021 · PMC8111874 · PMID 33972332

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did not reach statistical significancep=0.084so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

As far as symptoms are concerned, all symptomatic SARS-CoV-2-positive subjects were more often of male gender with respect to asymptomatic ones; however, this finding did not reach statistical significance (male sex prevalence: 62.00% vs 53.94%; p=0.084, OR=1.393, 95% CI 0.959 to 2.030).

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Finally, figure 2C shows the daily percentage of symptomatic positive patients, showing a decreasing trend over time as well.

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