1 MILLION COVID DEATHS!
#REMEMBER??
#FLU_SHOT Season Around the corner?
Nearly #HALF of 3COVID-SURVIVORS haven't #recovered 6 #months #later, study finds
Study based on 96% #White_Population.
~SCOTTISH RESEARCHES TRACKED MORE THAN 33,000 PATIENTS OVER THE AGE OF 16 WITH..~
"Our study is important because it adds to our understanding of long-COVID in the general population, not just in those people who need to be #admitted to #hospital with COVID-19," lead author Jill Pell, a professor of public health at the University of Glasgow, said in a statement.
"By #comparing_symptoms with those #uninfected, we were able to distinguish between #health_problems that are due to COVID-19 and health problems that would have #happened_anyway," the statement continued.
Long COVID occurs when patients who have cleared the active infection still have symptoms lasting more than four weeks after recovering. In some cases, these symptoms can persist for months or even years.
Patients can experience a variety of lingering #symptoms including #fatigue, #difficulty_breathing, #headaches, #brain_fog, joint and #muscle_pain, and continued #loss of #taste and #smell, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The authors mentioned some limitations including that most of the #participants were #white because the study was conducted in #Scotland, which has a 96% #white_population.
"Therefore, it is important that ethnic-specific outcomes are reported by other long-COVID studies with more ethnically diverse populations," the authors wrote.
Additionally, some of the common symptoms were also reported among a control group who had never tested positive for COVID. The symptoms that were most strongly associated with COVID infection were breathlessness, chest pain, palpitations and loss of taste and smell.
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