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About half of the people who are hospitalized with corona still have at least one persistent complaint after at least a year, according to a Chinese study. In most cases, it is shortness of breath or fatigue.
According to The Lancet, a British magazine that published the study, it is the largest study into the consequences of so-called long-term Covid.
Shortness of breath and psychological complaints
The researchers followed more than a thousand patients who were hospitalized in Wuhan for a year in early 2020. It concerned people who had become so ill that they had to be put on a ventilator. These patients did not end up in the intensive care unit (ICU).
One in three patients surveyed is still short of breath a year after being infected. The likelihood of long-term symptoms increases as the disease progresses, the researchers say. Psychological problems also occur: twelve months after the infection even more often than 6 months after the infection.
Long Covid
According to The Lancet, the study shows that authorities must continue to pay attention to patients with long-term Covid. “This is a medical challenge of the highest order,” the magazine writes.
Earlier research showed that more than 6 percent of Britons who became infected with the corona virus suffered from long-term consequences. In the Netherlands, Patient Group Long Covid Netherlands recently estimated the number of long-term Covid patients at 100,000. That would amount to almost 6 percent of the number of infections registered so far.
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