MADRID, 11 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States have found that more than 40% of long-COVID patients had moderate to severe sleep disorders, according to a study they presented at the SLEEP 2022 meeting of the Professional Sleep Societies Associated.
The analysis also showed that patients with moderate to severe sleep disturbances, compared with normal to mild ones, had higher body mass indexes, were more likely to be black and had worse general anxiety disorder.
After adjusting for demographic data, black patients were three times more likely to have moderate to severe sleep disturbances.
The team analyzed data collected from 962 PASC patients at the Cleveland Clinic’s reCOVer Clinic between February 2021 and April 2022. The patients recovered from COVID-19 and completed the Information System’s sleep disturbance and fatigue questionnaires. Measurement of Patient-Reported Outcomes.
More than two-thirds of patients (67.2%) reported at least moderate fatigue, while 21.8% indicated severe fatigue. 8% of patients reported severe sleep disturbances, while 41.3% reported moderate sleep disturbances.
“Sleep difficulties are a prevalent and debilitating symptom reported in long COVID patients,” explains Cinthya Pena Orbea, a staff physician at the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center. “So we leveraged data from the reCOVer Clinic of the Cleveland Clinic for people with long COVID to further elucidate these associations.”
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