Only one in four patients with covid-19 fully recovered a year after being hospitalized, according to a British study which warns that the long covid may become a common condition.
This research, presented by European Conference on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, used data from adult patients admitted to 39 UK hospitals from 7 March 2020 to 18 April 2021.
They participated in the research approximately 2,300 patients and recovered 807 of which five and twelve months after they were discharged from the hospital.
Only 26% of them reported that they had fully recovered five months after their hospitalizationwith the percentage increasing slightly to 28.9% twelve months after hospitalization.
Moreover, based on the results of the research, women are 33% less likely to have fully recovered than men, while overweight people are half as likely to have fully recovered as normal weight patients. Alongside, Those who needed a ventilator during their hospitalization are 58% less likely to have fully recovered.
Among the most common Symptoms of long-term covid reported by patients were fatigue, muscle aches, sleep disturbances, difficulty breathing, and decreased physical activity.
«Without effective treatments long-term covid could become a new long-term condition“, Said the Christopher Brightling of the University of Leicester.
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