One in two COVID hospital cases has complications: study

According to a new comprehensive study published Friday, up to one in two people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 develops other health complications.

The study authors said their results showed a “profound” short- and long-term impact on the health of patients with COVID-19, as well as in health and care services.

Data of more than 70,000 hospital patients more than 300 British hospitals were collected for research.

He found that the most common health complications they were problems with the patients ’kidneys and lungs, but neurological and cardiovascular conditions were also widely reported.

The complication rate was high even in “young, previously healthy” patients, with 27 percent of young people aged 19 to 29 years and 37 percent of 30 to 39 years experiencing at least one complication after being hospitalized with COVID-19.

Authors of the research, published in The Lancet medical journal, he said he should alert policymakers about the need to plan long-term support for COVID survivors.

“This work contradicts current narratives that COVID-19 is only dangerous in people with existing co-morbidities and in the elderly,” said Senior Professor Calum Semple, of the University of Liverpool.

“The severity of the disease on admission is a predictor of complications even in younger adults, so complication prevention requires a primary prevention strategy, that is, vaccination.”

The data showed that complications were more common in men than in women and slightly higher in black patients than white patients.

Significantly, nearly one in three (27%) patients found themselves with less ability to care for themselves after receiving hospital discharge, regardless of age, gender, or race.

The authors said the complications recorded in the research were separate from the so-called “long COVID,” where patients manifest symptoms directly related to the disease for weeks and often months after infection.

They called for long-term monitoring of the health impacts of patients with VOCID and said governments should be prepared to organize specialized follow-up care for survivors.

“It is important that, with the high risk of complications and the impact they have on people, the complications of COVID-19, not just death, should be considered when making decisions about the best way to treat addressing the pandemic, ”said co-author Aya Riyadh of the University of Edinburgh.

“Focusing on death from COVID-19 is likely to underestimate the real impact, especially in China younger people who are more likely to survive severe COVID-19 “.

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