Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in community-living older adults from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Symptom persistence in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients, also known as Long COVID or Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19, is not well characterized or understood, and few studies have included non-COVID-19 control groups.

Methods

We used data from a cross-sectional COVID-19 questionnaire (September-December 2020) linked to baseline (2011-2015) and follow-up (2015-2018) data from a population-based cohort including 23,757 adults 50+ years to examine how age, sex, and pre-pandemic physical, psychological, social, and functional health were related to the severity and persistence of 23 COVID-19-related symptoms experienced between March 2020 and questionnaire completion.

Results

The most common symptoms are fatigue, dry cough, muscle/joint pain, sore throat, hea

SUBMITTER: Griffith LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10006564 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature