About 30% of COVID-19 patients suffer from ‘long COVID’
Surprisingly, ethnicity, older age, and socioeconomic status, all linked with severe illness, were not associated with the long COVID syndrome.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are still learning about the effects of the virus, including how many people suffer from “long COVID” – When symptoms of the disease linger long past infection.
New University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) research finds that 30% of people treated for COVID-19 developed Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), most commonly known as “long COVID.”
According to the study, which was recently published in Springer, patients with a history of hospitalization, diabetes, and higher body mass index were most likely to develop the condition, while those covered by Medicaid, as opposed to commercial health insurance, or had undergone an organ transplant were less likely to acquire it.
Surprisingly, demographics that are linked with severe illness and greater risk of death from COVID-19, such as ethnicity, older age and socioeconomic status, were not associated with long COVID syndrome.
The UCLA researchers studied 1,038 people who were enrolled in the UCLA COVID Ambulatory Program between April 2020 and February 2021. Of those, 309 people were living with long COVID. In hospitalized patients, the most persistent symptoms were fatigue and shortness of breath (31 and 15 percent, respectively). Loss of sense of smell (16 percent) was the most reported symptom in outpatients.
“This study illustrates the need to follow diverse patient populations longitudinally to understand the Long COVID disease trajectory and evaluate how individual factors such as pre-existing co-morbidities, sociodemographic factors, vaccination status and virus variant type affect type and persistence of Long COVID symptoms,” said Dr. Sun Yoo, health sciences assistant clinical professor at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and medical director of the Extensivist Program.
“Studying outcomes in a single health system can minimize variation in quality of medical care. Our study also raises questions such as: Why were patients with commercial insurance twice as likely to develop Long COVID than patients insured through Medicaid? Because persistent symptoms can be subjective in nature, we need better tools to accurately diagnose Long COVID and to differentiate it from exacerbations of other emerging or chronic conditions. Finally, we need to ensure equitable access to outpatient Long COVID care.”
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VOWG
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Long “covid”. Is this another mental illness?
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Geraint Hughes
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It could be anything, Dr’s are not following standard protocols and procedures as they should be. What they should in fact be doing is testing for low iron and low vitamin d and seeing peoples diets are missing magnesium before they even think of diagnosing any kind of “long covid” condition.. As some 1/3 of people in the west are suffering from iron and vit D deficiencies without knowing it, and thinking they are suffering from some spurious disease when they are not.
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Dan
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I agree, it may be a nutritional component! myself, I have intrinsic blocking factor for B-vitamins/magnesium, so if an illness depletes your stores of nutrition or you eat poorly, or pre-existing condition, one or all may be contribuatory, just sayin.
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Charles Higley
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No, there are indeed some people who have longer recovery symptoms than other, just as every year, there are people that lose their sense of taste and smell. But, and a big BUT, there is also chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which is caused by a manmade virus (unintentionally, produced by methods for generating vaccines decades ago). By claiming “long Covid,” they can pretend that CFS disappeared and long Covid took its place. Imagine the fall out from finding out that our health researchers actually created a whole new disease, along with autism by a different virus, for which there is no cure and could be carried by up to 9% of the population. This is their way of sweeping CFS un the rug.
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I been tired for years and it is because I an a very old white guy. B S is still B S.
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Tom
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Show me the test that confirms this nonsense. Otherwise, there are dozens of possibilities to explain lingering symptoms. Exactly how long is covid supposed to last and when do you know it is long covid? What nonsense.
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Geraint Hughes
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Exactly Tom. Dr’s and their patients are both in tandem acting idiotically and not rationally. They should be testing themselves of simple and easy to solve conditions such as iron and vit-d deficiencies BEFORE they even think about more complex conditions. This is not happening, NHS in the uk is negligent in this regard as is the UK government and thousands upon thousands of NHS nurses and Dr’s.
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Jacque
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My sister is still unable to breathe without her oxygen tank and personally I believe it has more to do with the respirator they put her on for her covid than anything else
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Jacque
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I think long covid is a product of the treatments used to prevent and treat the fake virus
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Squidly
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“Long COVID” is nothing more than CYA … period.
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Alcheminister
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“Long covid” is total ignorance of and not addressing causation.
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