What are the Effects and Consequences of Long COVID?
COVID-19 may impact your brain.
As per a study published in JAMA Neurology, Dr Sheri Dewan, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, reports 36.4% of patients face neurologic issues post COVID-19. The virus can cripple the medullary neurons’ ability to function correctly.
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COVID-19 patients face an increased risk of death within six months of contracting the virus.
A study from Washington University School of Medicine found that among patients who had to be hospitalised and survived the first month, there were 29 excess deaths per 1000 of them. The figure stood at eight per 1000 affected, after the first six months.
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Over half of the patients who overcame COVID-19 did not feel fully recovered.
A study conducted on 327 discharged patients in the UK, found that 54.7% of participants had a feeling of not having fully recovered from the virus. In addition, those severely hit had a lasting sense of fatigue post-discharge.
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Middle-aged women are likely to suffer more from post-COVID-19 health repercussions.
A study conducted across 31 UK hospitals found that women, especially those under 50, are five times less likely to feel recovered (potentially because more women operate on the frontline). They’re more likely to face acute fatigue and breathlessness compared with men.
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COVID-19 can lead to permanent lung damage or fibrosis.
Dr Andrew Martin, a pulmonologist at Deborah Heart and Lung Center, states that those infected with severe COVID-19 infection and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) can suffer from long-term health issues. In the worst cases, this can turn into fibrosis.
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People aged over 65 or having major diseases can suffer the most because of COVID-19.
Dr Gary Weinstein, a Pulmonologist at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, states that people over 65 or suffering from chronic lung, kidney, heart, or liver disease are more at risk of long COVID. People with diabetes and morbid obesity face similar risks.
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A majority of COVID patients had at least one symptom even 60 days after recovery.
A study of 143 patients who’d recovered from the virus found that most of them had at least one symptom persisting even 60 days after recovery. Fatigue and dyspnea were common in 87.4% of people taking part in the study.
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COVID-19 can impact every organ in the body.
A new study from Washington University School of Medicine, after evaluating 379 diagnoses of diseases linked to COVID-19, found that most patients suffered from significant health issues (at least in the first six months) across body organs.
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COVID-19 causes radiologic abnormalities.
A study of 55 patients who recovered from COVID-19 found that 64% of these people (35, to be precise) showed persistent higher chest radiological scores. 71% (39 in number) reported radiologic abnormalities, including traces of fibrosis and interstitial thickening.
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COVID-19 can cause myocardial inflammation.
In a German study, 100 students who’d recently recovered from coronavirus had cardiac magnetic resonance imaging conducted on them. It showed 78% of them suffering from cardiac involvement and 60% suffering myocardial inflammation, which they did not suffer before.