UCLA study finds about 30% of COVID patients develop 'LONG COVID'

Find

New research from UCLA found that 30 percent of people treated for COVID-19 developed acute post-COVID-19 sequelae (PASC), the most common being the "long coronavirus

Among the 309 patients in the study with prolonged COVID-19 infection, the most persistent symptoms were fatigue and shortness of breath in hospitalized patients (31% and 15%, respectively), and loss of smell in outpatient patients (16%)

background

Throughout the pandemic, the incidence and risk factors for the long coronavirus, and even how the syndrome is defined, remain unclear

method

UCLA researchers studied 1,038 patients who presented to the UCLA COVID-19 outpatient clinic between April 2020 and February 2021

Potential weaknesses of the study include: the subjective nature of patient-assessed symptoms, the limited number of symptoms assessed by researchers, and limited information about patients' prior conditions

Influence

"This study demonstrates the need to follow different patient groups longitudinally to understand the trajectories of COVID-19 over time, and to assess individual factors such as pre-existing comorbidities, sociodemographic factors, vaccination status and types of viral variants, How it affects the type and persistence of COVID-19 symptoms over prolonged periods of time,

author

Additional authors of the study are Dr.

Magazine

journal of general internal medicine

DOI

10.

method research

observational study

research topic

people

article title

Factors associated with acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) following inpatient and outpatient diagnosis of symptomatic COVID-19 in different cohorts

Article publication date

7 - April - 2022