{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,1]],"date-time":"2025-09-01T16:40:03Z","timestamp":1756744803549,"version":"3.44.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Medical Association","issue":"09","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,26]],"date-time":"2025-08-26T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1756166400000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Pak Med Assoc"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: To determine the frequency of telogen effluvium in post-coronavirus disease-2019 patients.\nMethod: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Dermatology, Pakistan Air Force Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan, from February 10 to August 10, 2022, and comprised coronavirus disease-2019 patients of either gender aged 14-60 years. Telogen effluvium was defined as diffuse, non-scarring shedding of hair. Patients\u2019 own approximate assessment of the degree of hair loss using 60-second timed hair count for 3 consecutive days was taken as a subjective tool to grade the severity of hair loss per day as mild (&lt;20 hair\/day), moderate (20-70 hair\/day), severe (71-100 hair\/day) and very severe (&gt;100 hair\/day). The severity of coronavirus disease-2019 was assessed through high-resolution computed tomography chest severity scoring as mild (0-9), moderate (10-19) and severe (&gt;20). Data was analysed using SPSS 23.\nResults: Of the 160 patients, 83(51.9%) were males. The overall mean age was 30.72\u00b16.026 years, and the mean coronavirus disease-2019 severity score was 12.83\u00b15.16. Telogen effluvium was noted among 46(28.8%) patients; 8(17.4%) mild, 21(45.7%) moderate, 12(26.1%) severe, and 5(10.8%) very severe. Females had a significantly higher frequency of telogen effluvium compared to males (p&lt;0.01).\nConclusion: Telogen effluvium was noted as one of the frequent consequences of the coronavirus disease-2019, and it was strongly associated with the female gender.\nKey Words: COVID-19, Pandemic, Real-time polymerase chain reaction, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.47391\/jpma.21262","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,28]],"date-time":"2025-08-28T16:04:49Z","timestamp":1756397089000},"page":"1378-1381","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Telogen effluvium in covid-19 patients: a cross-sectional survey"],"prefix":"10.47391","volume":"75","author":[{"given":"Faisal","family":"Ahmad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fatima","family":"Sajid","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Afnan","family":"Bin Haq","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shayan","family":"Rizwan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ayesha","family":"Siraj","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Muneeza","family":"Rizwan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"26547","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,26]]},"container-title":["Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/download\/21262\/4305","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/download\/21262\/4305","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,1]],"date-time":"2025-09-01T16:03:47Z","timestamp":1756742627000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/view\/21262"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,26]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"09","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,28]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47391\/jpma.21262","relation":{},"ISSN":["0030-9982","0030-9982"],"issn-type":[{"type":"electronic","value":"0030-9982"},{"type":"print","value":"0030-9982"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,26]]}}}