Women and others who had to be hospitalized with covid are more likely to develop prolonged covid, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in JAMA on Monday, which provides new insight into the chronic and debilitating condition as researchers push to expand. new remedies and recover.
An estimated 6% of other people with symptomatic covid infections develop persistent symptoms months after initial infection, according to a study of published studies and medical records with data from 1. 2 million covid patients from 22 countries.
The researchers found that prolonged covid symptoms, which are grouped into three sets of continuous breathing symptoms, persistent fatigue with body aches or mood swings and cognitive disturbances, were much less unusual in patients who needed to be hospitalized with covid than those who did not, that is, among those who needed care in the ICU.
An estimated 43 percent of patients admitted to intensive care experienced at least one of the symptom groups three months after infection, the study found, with 28 percent of those admitted to general hospital wards and only 6 percent of those who were not hospitalized.
The researchers also found significant differences in the threats of having prolonged covid depending on age and sex, with adults over the age of 20 at higher risk of contracting the disease.
An estimated 63% of long-term covid cases occur among women worldwide, the researchers said, and nearly one in ten women over the age of 20 who had symptomatic covid but didn’t want hospitalization developed persistent symptoms, in just 5% of men.
People over 20 are also at a higher risk of contracting prolonged covid than younger people, the researchers found, with an estimated 2% risk in men over 20 and 7% in women.
Among covid survivors who developed persistent symptoms, researchers estimate that 15% continued to have symptoms 12 months after infection. It is not known why or how some people experience symptoms for longer periods of time and others do not. The researchers said only time and other studies will reveal how long symptoms persist in other people.
There have been over 96. 4 million cases of covid in the US. The U. S. has been in the U. S. since the pandemic began, according to CDC data. This time, more than a million people have died with covid and a good proportion of those cases are likely to be repeat infections. not all were symptomatic infections, which was the focus of the study, and many more cases likely went unreported, the study’s prevalence of 6% means that around 5. 8 million other people have experienced a long Covid in the United States. About 870,000 reportedly had persistent symptoms for a year.
Although it appears to be relatively common after infection, prolonged covid remains poorly understood several years after the coronavirus pandemic. The underlying reasons are unknown: the main theories come with challenges with the immune system, the virus persists in the picture after the initial. Problems of infection and blood clotting: A remedy is not shown and its exact prevalence is unclear. Similarities. Although it emerged as a transparent challenge quite early in the pandemic, as well as imposing a massive human and economic burden, Covid has gained relatively little attention compared to other facets of the global epidemic and especially when it comes to a public fitness policy. involve the virus.
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