{"doi":"10.1002/puh2.78","title":"Long COVID in Uganda: Electrographic findings among patients at risk","abstract":"Background: COVID-19 has a significant cardiovascular involvement. Electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities among people at a risk of Long COVID in Uganda was investigated. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from February to June 2022 at the post COVID - 19 clinic in Mulago National Specialized Hospital, Kampala. A standard resting ECG was performed on individuals at least 2 months following acute COVID-19, with a negative SARS-CoV-2 reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics as well as vital signs were recorded for all study participants. Results: Of the 244 study participants, 117 (47.9%) were female. The median age of all the participants was 33.0 (interquartile range: 26.0 - 43.5) years. Twenty-five (10.2%) participants had a history of smoking while 117 (48%) had a history of alcohol intake. In total, 46 (18.9%) had abnormal ECG findings (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 14.39 - 24.29) and non-specific T-wave inversion (n = 16, 34%) was the most frequent ECG abnormality. The proportion of participants with ECG abnormalities was 48% lower among females (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR): 0.52, 95% CI: 0.28 - 0.96, p value < 0.05) and 2-fold greater for those with a history of smoking (aPR: 2.03, 95% CI:1.096 - 3.776, p value < 0.05). Conclusion: One in five Ugandans who were checked at the clinic at a risk of Long COVID showed ECG abnormalities. ECG screening is suggested to be integrated into the follow-up care of those at a risk of Long COVID.","journal":"Public Health Challenges","year":2023,"id":406028,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9511,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":546623,"name":"Charles Batte","orcid":"0000-0003-0351-8705","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1185033,"name":"Daniel Iraguha","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1185034,"name":"Pamela Apio Okwir","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1185035,"name":"Hope Atuhaire","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1185036,"name":"Chelsea Faith Lipoto","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1184802,"name":"Tonny Muwonge","orcid":"0009-0009-2771-0444","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1185037,"name":"Norah Namirembe","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1184803,"name":"Grace Biyinzika Lubega","orcid":"0000-0003-0657-7903","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":588770,"name":"Provia Ainembabazi","orcid":"0000-0003-2570-754X","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":578533,"name":"John Mukisa","orcid":"0000-0002-9208-0313","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":546620,"name":"Felix Bongomin","orcid":"0000-0003-4515-8517","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":328480,"name":"Isaac Ssinabulya","orcid":"0000-0001-6521-7778","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":332196,"name":"Emmy Okello","orcid":"0000-0002-6109-0092","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":928474,"name":"Andrew Weil Semulimi","orcid":"0000-0003-0588-1559","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":13,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:20:59.152593Z","pmid":"37867587","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}