The SARS‐CoV‐2 virus continues to account for millions of short‐ and long‐term conditions that can impact an individual''s cognition, breathing, and digestion. Specifically, Long COVID creates long‐term health problems, diagnosable if COVID‐19 symptoms present after an initial infection. ...
Overall, the most common symptoms of long-term pulmonary sequelae experienced by those with COVID-19 include fatigue, dyspnea, and/or cough. The prevalence of these symptoms and the severity of abnormalities on imaging depend on the severity of acute illness Epidemiology A breakdown of the major...
Constitution of Long COVID illness, patienthood and recovery: a critical synthesis of qualitative studies Objectives To investigate the lived experiences of Long COVID.Design Critical interpretive synthesis of qualitative research.Data sources PubMed and Web of... M Harrison,T Rhodes,K Lancaster - ...
As COVID-19 can sometimes persist for months, besides the lungs, the virus can damage several organs in the body, such as heart and brain, potentially leading to the risk of long-term health problems. Nevertheless, the chances of having long COVID does not seem to be related to how ill...
Background: The long-term sequela of COVID-19 on young people is still unknown. This systematic review explored the effect of COVID-19 on lung imaging and function, cardiorespiratory symptoms, fatigue, exercise capacity and functional capacity in children and adolescents ≥ 3 months after infectio...
COVID-19 to those who had never had COVID-19 or had recovered. Further, we used mutually adjusted logistic regression to quantify the associations of age, sex, ethnicity, IMD, comorbidities, smoking status, severity of initial illness, COVID-19 vaccination status, and dominant UK circulating ...
Different authors have used several terms to describe prolonged symptoms following COVID-19 illness, such as “Long COVID-19”, “post-acute COVID-19”, “persistent COVID-19 symptoms”, “chronic COVID-19”, “post-COVID-19 manifestations”, “long-term COVID-19 effects”, “post CO...
Long COVID (PASC): Some COVID-19 patients have long-term symptoms that can last weeks or months. You may know it as “long COVID,” or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC).
Perhaps the scariest emerging long-term effect of COVID-19 is its potential impact on the brain. A June 2020 study inNeurologyfound evidence that some patients with severe COVID-19 illness exhibit signs of brain damage or brain injury (though the authors note that this is uncommon). ...
Acute symptoms of COVID-19, such as cough, fever and shortness of breath, are now widely known. What is not known, however, is what symptoms and complications may linger long after an initial COVID-19 infection. Early research shows the disease attacks m