The 1-Year Functional Recovery From Severe COVID-19 in a Swedish Working-Age Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term symptoms are common after the acute phase of COVID-19. We hypothesized that sick leave as an estimate of functional recovery, adjusted for confounding, differs between intensive care unit (ICU) and hospitalized COVID-19 patients and population controls.

Methods

In this cohort study, we identified all working-age individuals with COVID-19 admitted to ICUs or hospitals until July 20, 2020 from national registries. Matched population controls were randomly assigned to each ICU patient. Using logistic regression to adjust for confounding, we compared ICU patients to hospital patients and population controls on the number of sick leave-free days alive during the first year after hospital discharge and the proportion of alive individuals on sick leave after 1

SUBMITTER: Ahlstrom B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12069831 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature