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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bezuglov, Eduard
• Khaitin, Vladimir
• Lazarev, Artemii
• Achkasov, Evgeniy
• Romanova, Larisa
• Butovskiy, Mikhail
• Khokhlov, Vladimir
• Tsyplenko, Maxim
• Linskiy, Alexander
• Chetverikov, Petr
• Sugaipov, Magomedtagir
• Petrov, Arseniy
• Talibov, Oleg
• Waśkiewicz, Zbigniew
• Sharma, Gopal Ashish

Titel

The incidence and severity of COVID-19 in adult professional soccer players in Russia

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2022-06, Vol.17 (6), p.e0265019-e0265019

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There are little data on the incidence, and clinical course of COVID-19 among professional soccer players, and the studies examining putative complications of COVID-19 infections are probabilistic. On February 28, the WHO raised the COVID-19 threat assessment to its highest level. The COVID-19 outbreak became a significant challenge for world health. Around 30 million people got infected with COVID-19 since the beginning of this year. More than 900.000 decease. Thus, examining the incidence of COVID-19 and various aspects of its clinical course in a group of adult professional soccer players would be of great practical interest. The incidence, clinical practice, and severity of COVID-19 infection, as well as the duration of treatment and return to play was studied based on a survey of team physicians and medical records assessment in the group of adult professional soccer players representing the clubs of the Russian Premier-League (RPL) during the period of championship resumption from 01.04.2020 until 20.09.2020. COVID-19 infection was detected in 103 soccer players during COVID-19 screening. This number comprises 14.5% of all soccer players on the rosters of RPL soccer teams and is subjected to regular COVID-19 testing. The asymptomatic course was observed in 43.7% of cases (n = 45). These players were isolated, and their clinical condition was monitored closely. In 56.3% of patients (n = 58), fatigue, headache, fever, and anosmia were the most common symptoms. COVID-19 infection was commonly diagnosed among adult professional soccer players in Russia. However, most cases had a mild course and did not impair return to regular exercise. Only two players were hospitalized with lung lesions and returned to regular sports.