More symptoms a two years after admission. This argues over half of the patients hospitalized for COVID-19, particularly in the early stages of the pandemic. A study published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine coordinated by the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing.
According to the survey, which analyzed the post-illness months of 1,192 people (the average age of 57) hospitalized in Wuhan, Hubei, the epicenter of the virus, between 7 January and 29 May 2020, therefore really in the phase darker than the pandemic, 55% explained they had at least one significant symptom linked to the syndrome 24 months after infection.
The most cited symptoms include fatigue problems And sleep disorderspoor quality of life in general e low exercise capacity. Problems follow mental health and in general the need to resort to health services more often. In particular, 52% reported muscle fatigue or weakness six months after hospitalization and 30% still after two years. While still two years of sleep disturbances concern, given that the observation period through the questionnaires has just ended, 31% of the sick at the time. It is not enough: those who had been hospitalized showed more likely to report additional symptomsfrom joint pain to dizziness, headache and palpitations.
Problems, as mentioned, also for mental health: 35% of patients with Long Covid reported unease13% symptoms of anxiety and 11% typical signals of the depression. Over time, in any case, it improves since six months after the disease – triggered by the original Wuhan strain, very different from the variants currently in circulation – the share of those who reported symptoms was 68%. “There is a clear need to provide a ongoing support to a significant portion of people who have had Covid-19 and to understand how vaccines, emerging treatments and variants affect long-term health outcomes, “he explained Bin Cao, lead author of the study and an authority on respiratory diseases. In many cases, multidisciplinary clinics and post-Covid day hospitals have been activated in Italy, for example the case of Gemelli polyclinic in Romeamong the first to be activated and therefore cuts the two years of operation.
Cao is in fact vice president and director of the pulmonary and critical medicine department at China-Japan Friendship Hospital as well as deputy director of the National Center for Chinese Respiratory Medicine. His work has long focused on pneumonia and flu as well as, in recent years, on Covid-19.
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Source: Vanity Fair
