Of 47,780 hospital patients who died, 29.4 percent were readmitted within 140 days. Of those, 12.3 percent died.
The long-term consequences of coronavirus infection are still coming to light as the virus continues to rage worldwide, now for almost a year.
A new study conducted in the United Kingdom found that almost a third of patients who recovered from COVID-19 were readmitted to hospital within five months, and one in eight patients who recovered , died within months of complications of the virus.
The results of the study were originally published in 2008 The Telegraph, a newspaper from Great Britain. It was found that out of 47,778 people discharged from the hospital, 29.4 percent of them were readmitted within 140 days. Of those, 12.3 percent later died.
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“The idea that we have such an increased risk in people – especially young people – means that we have a lot of work to do,” said Dr. Charlotte Summers, a lecturer in intensive care who was not involved in the study, says The guardian.
Long-term respiratory disease was found in almost a third of all patients with COVID-19, most of whom had no disease before.
An earlier study from China found that nearly three-quarters of patients recovering from the virus still had symptoms until six months later. The study also warned that antibody levels dropped dramatically during that period, making a patient prone to reinfection.
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The persistent conditions in that study were largely fatigue and muscle weakness, while some participants also expressed that they had trouble sleeping, plus depression and anxiety.
In November here in the states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they were “actively seeking to know more about the whole range of short- and long-term health consequences associated with COVID-19.” The CDC noted that there are several perennial studies underway to investigate how common the symptoms are, who is likely to get them and whether the symptoms eventually disappear.
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