Presentation with GI symptoms ‘common’ in coronavirus

It may presage milder disease, researchers say
Reuters Health Staff writer

About one-third of patients who present with COVID-19 have gastrointestinal symptoms, according to a US study.

Researchers from Columbia University, New York, compared the rates of gastrointestinal symptoms in 278 patients who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 with rates in 238 patients who tested negative.