Journal of Vaccines & Vaccination

Department of Nephrology, The Indus Hospital, Korangi Crossing Karachi-75190, Sindh, Pakistan

Biography

Sobia Tariq is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Nephrology. His research interests include Dysnatremias, Hypernatremia, Electrolytes imbalanc. Sobia Tariq is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Sobia Tariq has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities. Sobia Tariq has authored many research articles/books related to Medicine, Dysnatremias, Hypernatremia, Electrolytes imbalanc.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Dysnatremia in COVID-19 Disease, Characteristics of Patients, Clinical Manifestation and Outcome in Pakistan
  Author(s): Faiza Saeed*, Ashar Alam, Shoukat Memon, Javeria Chughtai, Shahzad Ahmed, Sobia Tariq, Beena Salman and Salman Imtiaz
  
  Background: Imbalance of serum sodium in the form of hypo and hypernatremia has negative prognostic impact, and is linked with increase in morbidity and mortality. COVID 19 is a deadly viral infection, and can be complicated with either of the two states. This increases the complications associated with the COVID 19 infection. Material and methods: This is an observational cohort study, conducted at The Indus Hospital Karachi, from March 2020 to September 2020. All patients were divided into three groups on the basis of their serum sodium level, and distribution of variables was observed in all these three groups. To observe the effect of dysnatremias on outcome, binary logistic regression was run and odds ratios with 95% confidence interval were obtained. Results: We included 655 patients, in which 70.7.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2157-7560.21.s12.001

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