The symptoms of Long Covid that disappear in a year

The assumption is anon-serious infection. Like, to be honest, what happened for the majority of the infected, despite the dramatic balance of deaths and hospitalizations. If the Covid syndrome had been forgiving, but you had nevertheless developed the so-called long Covid, then in all likelihood you should see some symptoms resolve within a year. One explains it new Israeli study he first signature Barak Mizrhai of the KI Institute published in the scientific journal British Medical Journal which would put a point to the many fears of past years: long Covid can be resolved without giving rise to chronic diseases. Provided that, as mentioned, it resulted from a minor infection.

By long Covid, we have seen it on various occasions, we mean persistent or new symptoms that appear more than four weeks after the initial infection and last at least three months or more. In the WHO European region, it would affect (or would affect) at least 17 million people in the first two years of the pandemic, according to numbers from the University of Washington School of Medicine. In general, at certain moments of the emergency it seemed that over one in five people, among those infected, could be at risk. They are people who for a long time have experienced various but persistent symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of smell and taste (anosmia and ageusia) and difficulty concentrating. In this last regard, for a long time there has also been talk of mental fog, brain fog.

There are 4 different types of Long Covid: here are the symptoms to recognize them
A new study has identified four subtypes of Long Covid. The most common concerns cardiac and respiratory complications, but there are also others that are less considered. A distinction that, according to doctors, can help patients obtain ad hoc and more effective treatments

The survey compared uninfected people with those affected by mild Covid for a year after the second group’s infection, drawing on public Israeli databases. In the analysis they are finished over two million patients tested for Covid between March 1, 2020 and October 1, 2021, specifically investigating over 70 long Covid states in a group of uninfected people. The comparisons were obviously also made between vaccinated and unvaccinated people, infected or not, considering parameters such as age, sex and variants of the virus but also risk factors such as alcohol, smoking and socio-economic levels, in time intervals close to the infection (30 -180 days) or later (180-360 days). Obviously excluding patients with serious illness, essentially those hospitalized.

“Our study resulted in a large detailed analysis of the medical records of a diverse population and represents one of the longest follow-up studies on patients with mild Covid performed to date – explain the authors – the results should apply to populations similar Westerners all over the world”. The result “suggests that mildly infected people are only at risk to a small extent. Most heals definitively within a year of diagnosis».

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