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New findings help explain the conundrum of prolonged covid

2022-05-25T21:12:27.628Z


As many as one in five adults who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection have experienced at least one prolonged COVID-related medical condition.


What is prolonged covid and how do you live with it?

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(CNN) --

Vaccines, variants, natural immunity and better treatment options mean that getting sick from COVID-19 is not the same now as it was a year or two ago.


But for millions of people who contracted the virus even in the first months of the pandemic, the impact of the disease lingers.

As many as one in five adults who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection have experienced at least one long-lasting or prolonged COVID-related medical condition, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diseases of the United States (CDC).

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This figure rises to one in four in people aged 65 and over.

The researchers found that the most common conditions among all adults were respiratory symptoms and musculoskeletal pain.

In addition, covid patients were twice as likely as other people to suffer from lung conditions.

Despite the great scientific attention paid to understanding covid-19 and the development of vaccines and treatments, health experts continue to learn about prolonged covid, one of the most unusual and damaging phenomena of the pandemic.

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We don't even know how many people have it.

Estimates of the frequency of long-term Covid symptoms range from 5% to 80%, according to the CDC.

Estimates from the World Health Organization range between 10% and 20%.

CDC researchers analyzed the medical records of more than 350,000 people who tested positive between March 2020 and November 2021, so their new study offers a valuable clue to the prevalence of the disease.

Another breakthrough came from a Scottish study, published on Monday, which found that the most severe cases of Covid-19 can cause long-term damage to a number of organs.

According to the study, which followed the evolution of 159 people for a year after their


hospital stay, heart inflammation became a constant problem for one in eight patients hospitalized for covid-19.

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Inflammation throughout the body and kidney damage were also common.

And the study supported other research indicating that women are at higher risk of long-term COVID than men.

"Covid-19 is a multi-system disease, and our study shows that lesions in the heart, lungs and kidneys can be seen after initial hospitalization on scans and blood tests," said Colin Berry, the professor of cardiology who led the study from the University of Glasgow.

Berry added that his findings "fill a vital knowledge gap" in our understanding of prolonged Covid.

Previous research suggests that a small portion of people now living with prolonged Covid may not have shown any symptoms of Covid-19 when initially infected, or may have had mild or unusual symptoms.

Last month, US President Joe Biden unveiled a new push to detect and treat prolonged Covid, including raising awareness of the disease as a potential cause of disability.

But the only certainty is that prolonged covid is unpredictable and, even at this point in the pandemic, it remains something of a scientific enigma.

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Source: cnnespanol

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