Of the 47,780 patients discharged, 29.4 percent were readmitted in 140 days. Of these, 12.3% died.
The long-term consequences of coronavirus infection continue to surface as the virus continues to spread worldwide, now for almost a year.
A new study conducted in the United Kingdom found that almost a third of patients who recovered from COVID-19 were hospitalized again in five months, and one in eight recovered patients died of complications from the virus in a few months.
The study results were originally published in The telegraph, a newspaper from Great Britain. He found that of 47,780 people discharged from the hospital, 29.4 percent of them were readmitted in 140 days. Of these, 12.3% died later.
COVID-19 has devastating and long-lasting effects on many organs in the body. Heart problems, chronic liver problems and kidney failure are the most common. Unfortunately, according to a The Guardian, these complications disproportionately affect “ethnic minority individuals” and those under the age of 70.
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“The idea that we have this level of risk increased in people – especially in young people – means that we have a lot of work to do”, Dr. Charlotte Summers, an intensive medicine professor not involved in the study, said The Guardian.
Long-term respiratory disease was found in almost a third of all patients with COVID-19, most of whom had no prior history of the disease.
A previous study in China found that almost three-quarters of patients recovering from the virus still show symptoms until six months later. The study also warned that during this period, antibody levels drop dramatically, leaving the patient subject to reinfection.
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The persistent conditions present in that study were largely fatigue and muscle weakness, while some participants also expressed that they had difficulty sleeping, in addition to depression and anxiety.
In November, here in the states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was “actively working to learn more about the full range of short and long term health effects associated with COVID-19”. The CDC noted that several studies over several years are underway to investigate how common the symptoms are, who is most likely to develop them and whether those symptoms eventually disappear.
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After 1 in 8 patients recovered with coronavirus, he dies in 5 months: the study first appeared in TheGrio.