Nearly a third of COVID-19 patients who recovered end up in hospital within five months – and up to one in eight die from complications due to the disease, according to a report.
Researchers at Leicester University in the UK and the Office for National Statistics found that out of 47,780 people discharged from hospital, 29.4 per cent were readmitted within 140 days, reports Telegraph.
Of the total, 12.3 percent succumbed to the disease, he added.
Many people suffering from the long-term effects of the coronavirus, according to the report, develop heart problems, diabetes and chronic liver and kidney conditions.
‘People seem to go home, get long-term effects, come back and die. We see that almost 30 percent have been re-admitted, and that’s a lot of people. The numbers are so large, ”said author Kamlesh Khunti.
‘The message here is that we really need to prepare for a long COVID. It’s a huge task to follow up on these patients, and the NHS is currently being pushed a lot, but some kind of monitoring needs to be arranged, ‘said Khunti, a professor of primary care diabetes and vascular medicine at Leicester University, added.
The study – which described Khunti as the biggest person to be discharged from hospital after being admitted with COVID-19 – found that survivors in 140 days are almost 3 1/2 times more likely to be readmitted and to to die than other outpatients.
Khunti said the researchers were surprised that many people were readmitted with a new diagnosis, adding that it was important to make sure people were placed on protective therapies, including statins and aspirin.
“We do not know if COVID destroys the beta cells that make insulin and you get type 1 diabetes, or if it causes insulin resistance, and that you develop type 2, but we see these surprising new diagnoses of diabetes,” he said. said.
“We have seen studies where survivors have had MRS scans and they have heart problems and liver problems,” Khunti added. “These people urgently need follow-up and the need to follow things like aspirin and statins.”
The new study was published on a pre-printed server and has not yet been reviewed by peers.
