According to a study, corona patients are later more susceptible to other diseases. According to an analysis of health insurance data, three months after the acute infection, they received medical diagnoses of physical and psychological symptoms more often than other people, the Dresden University Hospital announced on Wednesday. Not only adults, but also children and adolescents are potentially affected by post-Covid.
Dresden - In children and adolescents, for example, discomfort and rapid exhaustion, cough, pain in the throat and chest area as well as anxiety disorders and depression were most frequently found. In adults, the diagnoses mainly concerned taste disorders, fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. In addition to the Dresden University Medicine, several statutory health insurance companies and the Robert Koch Institute were involved in the study.
“This is one of the first large controlled cohort studies on post-Covid internationally.
The extensive database of our partners and innovative methodical procedures allow for the first time reliable statements on the long-term consequences of Covid-19 in children and adolescents, ”explained Professor Jochen Schmitt from the University Hospital Dresden.
In order to understand the connections between Covid-19 and the diseases, further research is necessary.
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In medicine, post-Covid means symptoms of illness and health restrictions that persist or are newly added for at least three months after a corona infection.
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