Two years after infection with coronavirus almost 60% of patients who were hospitalized and 67.5% of those who were not hospitalized report at least one post-Covid-19 symptom.
The data are from a study carried out in Spain, published in the scientific journal JAMA this Tuesday (15). According to the survey, symptoms were similar between hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients.
Evidence suggests that individuals who have prolonged illness symptoms report worse health-related quality of life.
Covid long
Prolonged symptoms of Covid-19 have been reported in several studies conducted throughout the pandemic.
A national survey called Covitel, which broadly assesses risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases, pointed out that for about 65% of Brazilians, the Covid-19 infection caused sequelae, which include loss of smell and taste.
Another analysis, released in May, revealed that two years after being infected with the coronavirus, half of patients admitted to a hospital in China still had at least one symptom.
In the recent study, experts evaluated a total of 360 hospitalized patients and 308 outpatients. Shortness of breath (dyspnea) was more prevalent at disease onset among hospitalized patients than among non-hospitalized patients, while loss of smell (anosmia) was more prevalent among non-hospitalized patients.
For the study, hospitalized patients were evaluated an average of 23 months after hospital discharge. Those who did not need hospitalization were evaluated an average of 23 months after the onset of symptoms.
The number of patients who showed at least one post-Covid symptom two years after infection was 215 (59.7%) among hospitalized patients and 208 (67.5%) among outpatients.
Between the two groups, fatigue (161 among inpatients / 147 among outpatients), pain (129 / 92) and memory loss (72 / 49) were the most prevalent symptoms two years after infection with SARS-CoV-2. The study points out that no significant differences were observed in symptoms between the two groups.
Exercises and physiotherapy contribute to an improvement in quality of life
Rehabilitation with the participation of a multidisciplinary team, involving physiotherapists, speech therapists, doctors and nutritionists, can bring benefits to the quality of life of patients with long-term Covid.
“Symptoms such as loss of taste and smell were already signs of something very serious in relation to eating habits and it gets worse because of dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) resulting from prolonged intubation and tracheostomy”, says doctor Luciana Castilho de Figueiredo , physiotherapy supervisor at the ICU at the Hospital de ClÃnicas (HC) at Unicamp.
Patients may benefit from weight training with low or moderate loads, stretching, cardio-respiratory activities that are not overloaded (including exercise bike classes, as long as there is not too much resistance on the pedals) or that challenge mobility, such as circuit training (also with light loads). or moderate).
Source: CNN Brasil
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