Almost 30 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Develop ‘Long COVID’
From www.physiciansweekly.com
2022-05-03 05:51:35
Excerpt:
MONDAY, May 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Almost 30 percent of hospitalized patients and high-risk outpatients with COVID-19 develop postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (PASC), according to a study published online April 7 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Sun M. Yoo, M.D., M.P.H., from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles, and colleagues examined the association of demographic and clinical characteristics on development of PASC among hospitalized and high-risk outpatients from April 2020 to February 2021.
The researchers found that 29.8 percent of the 1,038 patients with longitudinal follow-up developed PASC. In hospitalized patients, the most common persistent symptom was fatigue, followed by shortness of breath (31.4 and 15.4 percent, respectively); in outpatients, anosmia was the most common persistent symptom….
