Latest news from American Journal of Gastroenterology on Newswise en-us Copyright 2024 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/digestive-symptoms-present-in-mild-covid-19-disease-sometimes-without-fever/?sc=rsin /articles/digestive-symptoms-present-in-mild-covid-19-disease-sometimes-without-fever/?sc=rsin Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:55:02 EST A new study published in pre-print by The American Journal of Gastroenterology is the first analysis of gastrointestinal symptoms reported by COVID-19 patients with mild disease rather than those with moderate or critical illness and finds a unique sub-group with low severity disease marked by presence of digestive symptoms, most notably diarrhea. The authors from Union Hospital and Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, China report that among some of the patients included in the study, these digestive symptoms, particularly diarrhea, were the presentation of COVID-19, and were only later, or never, present with respiratory symptoms or fever. American Journal of Gastroenterology