Fewer than 30 percent of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) have fully recovered following a full year, according to a UK study published in the medical journal Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Research warns that “long COVID” may become a common condition.
In the study of more than 2,300 people, women were 33 percent less likely than men to make a full recovery, Agence France-Presse reported. The study also found that people who were obese were only half as likely to make a full recovery; those who were put on a ventilator were 58 percent less likely to make a full recovery.
The study looked at the health of people discharged from 39 UK hospitals between March 2020 and April 2021, and reassessed the recovery of 807 of them at five months and one year. According to the study, only 26% of respondents reported full recovery following five months, and only slightly increased to 28.9% following one year.
Rachel Evans, of the National Institutes of Health Medicine, who co-led the study, said: “During the period from 5 months to 1 year following discharge, patients’ symptoms, mental health status, exercise capacity, organ damage and quality of life were The recovery has been surprisingly limited.”
The most common long-term symptoms of COVID-19 are tiredness, muscle pain, poor sleep, reduced mobility and shortness of breath. Christopher Brightling of the University of Leicester, who also led the study, said: “Without effective treatment, long-term symptoms of Covid-19 might become a highly prevalent long-term condition.” Track patient health.
Editor: Qin Yingwen
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