In most cases, it is shortness of breath or fatigue, according to a Chinese study published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
Long-term Covid
Researchers followed 1,276 patients who were hospitalized in the Chinese city of Wuhan in early 2020 after a corona infection for a year. It involved people who were so sick that they had to be hospitalized and given oxygen (in 75 percent of the cases), but did not end up in intensive care.
According to The Lancet, this is the largest study into the consequences of the so-called long-term Covid (‘long Covid’) to date.
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Shortness of breath, depression
One in three patients is still short of breath a year after the infection. The researchers concluded that the more severe the disease course, the more likely people were to suffer from symptoms for longer. Psychological problems such as depression were even more common twelve months after the infection than six months after the infection, the study shows.
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.
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Earlier research showed that more than 6 percent of Britons who became infected with the corona virus suffered 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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