Nearly one-third of patients recovering from COVID-19 were readmitted to hospital within five months and one in eight died, according to a report from Leicester University and the Office for National Statistics in the UK. Statistics showed that out of 47,780 people who were discharged from the hospital during the first spate of COVID-19, 29.4% were returned to the hospital and 12.3% died from COVID-19 related problems.
According to the Daily Mail, many survivors of COVID-19 have developed serious health issues such as heart problems, diabetes and chronic kidney and liver disease. Study author Kamlesh Khunti, a professor of primary care diabetes and vascular medicine at the University of Leicester, said it was the largest study of its kind to date that found patients with COVID-19.
‘People seem to go home, get long-term effects, come back and die. We see that 30% have been re-admitted, and that’s a lot of people. The numbers are so large, “he told the Daily Mail.
The study found that survivors of the disease were nearly three and a half times more likely to be readmitted and die within 140 days than other outpatients, according to the New York Post. Khunti said the patients were re-admitted with a new diagnosis, such as diabetes or liver disease, and said it was important that COVID-19 survivors be placed on protective therapies such as statins and aspirin.
“We do not know if COVID-19 destroys the beta cells that make insulin, and you get type 1 diabetes, or if you cause insulin resistance, and that you develop type 2, but we see these surprising new diagnoses of diabetes. he said according to the Post.
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