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Risk of ruling out severe acute respiratory syndrome by ruling in another diagnosis: variable incidence of atypical bacteria coinfection based on diagnostic assays. Cardiac Complications of COVID-19: Signs to Watch for on the ECG 28(1), 6781. To investigate the prevalence and the mechanisms underlying IST in a prospective population of PCS patients. In a follow-up study of 100 patients, approximately 38% had ongoing headaches after 6weeks138. Assessment of ANS function is challenging and barely feasible in daily clinical practice. The IST subjects had a mean heart rate of 1052bpm supine and 12511bpm in the upright position. Gemayel, C., Pelliccia, A. . PubMed Persistence of symptoms and quality of life at 35 days after hospitalization for COVID-19 infection. https://doi.org/10.23736/S1973-9087.21.06549-7 (2021). In adults, a heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute when resting is considered tachycardia. Cardiol. Moores, L. K. et al. 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Nevertheless, nearly all patients with silent hypoxemia are hospitalized at some point, as this condition leads to a critical diagnostic delay; in contrast to our study population of patients with mild disease who did not require hospital admission (therefore, assuming the absence of silent hypoxemia).