PARIS: Even one in three people has not fully recovered from COVID-19 a year after being hospitalized with the disease, a UK study on Sunday (April 24th) showed that long-term COVID could become common. common condition.
The study, which included more than 2,300 people, also found that women were 33% less likely to fully recover than men.
He also found that obese people were half as likely to fully recover, while those in need of mechanical ventilation were 58 percent less likely.
The study looked at the health of people discharged from 39 British hospitals with COVID-19 between March 2020 and April 2021, then estimated the recovery of 807 of them five months and a year later.
Only 26% reported a full recovery after five months, and that number rose only slightly to 28.9% after one year, according to a study published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
“The limited recovery from five months to a year after hospitalization in our study of symptoms, mental health, exercise capacity, organ damage and quality of life is astounding,” said study co-leader Rachel Evans of the National Research Institute. of health and care. .
The most common long-term symptoms of COVID are fatigue, muscle aches, poor sleep, delayed physical development and shortness of breath.
“Without effective treatments, long-term COVID could become a widespread new long-term condition,” said study co-leader Christopher Breitling of the University of Leicester.
The study, which will be presented to the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, is ongoing and will continue to monitor patients’ health.
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