A study of more than 1,200 COVID survivors who were once hospitalized finds that about half have at least one symptom a year later.
Dozens of grass-roots organizations have formed to make sure that COVID-19 and its lingering symptoms remain in the public eye.When the study’s COVID-19 patients were examined at six months, 68% said they had at least one of 15 symptoms considered hallmarks of long COVID, which is also known as, or PASC. At one year, 49% were still afflicted by at least one of those symptoms.
At the same time, the numbers of patients reporting breathing difficulties saw a slight increase, rising from 26% at six months to 30% after a year. Likewise, patients who reported new depression or anxiety increased from 23% to 26% during that period.from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing said the slight uptick in anxiety and depression was, like all of long COVID’s symptoms, hard to explain.
But in the tally of more subjective long COVID symptoms, the difference between the most severely ill and those who required no supplemental oxygen at all was very small.More than one year after Sandhya Kambhampati was diagnosed with COVID-19, she shares her story as she continues to recover.That finding underscores the fact that even patients who are only mildly ill are at risk of developing a range of persistent symptoms.
The findings from the Wuhan patients also tracked with the widespread observation that persistent post-COVID infection symptoms are more common in women than in men. Women who had been hospitalized for COVID-19 were twice as likely as their male counterparts to report depression or anxiety 12 months later. In addition, they were close to three times as likely to show evidence of impaired lung function, and 43% more likely to report symptoms of fatigue and muscle weakness.
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