Only one in four patients hospitalized for Covid19 has fully recovered after a year, according to a British study published this Sunday (24) suggesting that women or obesity increase the risk of maintaining health problems raise.
This study, presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Lisbon and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, used data from adult patients from 39 UK National Health Service hospitals between March 7, 2020 and April 18, 2021 (NHS).
Recovery was assessed using the results of various tests in 2,320 patients five months after hospital discharge and in 33% of them one year later.
Researchers primarily collected blood samples during the fivemonth visit to test for the presence of various inflammatory proteins.
The study found that the proportion of fully recovered adults did not change significantly between five months (25.5%) and one year (28.9%) after hospital discharge.
Being women, being obese and having received mechanical ventilation in the hospital was associated with a lower likelihood of feeling a full recovery within a year, the study adds.
The most common symptoms of the socalled “Long Covid” include fatigue, muscle pain, physical deceleration, lack of sleep and shortness of breath.