A nationwide study of risk factors for long COVID and its economic and mental health consequences in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States, concerns have been increasingly raised over the future public health and economic burden of long COVID including disability and declines in labor force participation. However, only a handful of U.S. studies have explored sociodemographic or socioeconomic characteristics that put people at risk of long COVID or have investigated its economic and mental health sequelae.

Methods

Using repeated cross-sectional data on over 375,000 adults including nearly 50,000 adults with long COVID pooled from U.S. nationally-representative Household Pulse Survey data collected between September and November 2022 and between August and October 2023, I fit age- and gender-adjusted and multivariable modified Poisson regression models to examine multiple sociodemo

SUBMITTER: Kim D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11978816 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature