Post-COVID-19 Symptom Burden: What is Long-COVID and How Should We Manage It?

ABSTRACT: The enduring impact of COVID-19 on patients has been examined in recent studies, leading to the description of Long-COVID. We report the lasting symptom burden of COVID-19 patients from the first wave of the pandemic. All patients with COVID-19 pneumonia discharged from a large teaching hospital trust were offered follow-up. We assessed symptom burden at follow-up using a standardised data collection technique during virtual outpatient clinic appointments. Eighty-six percent of patients reported at least one residual symptom at follow-up. No patients had persistent radiographic abnormalities. The presence of symptoms at follow-up was not associated with the severity of the acute COVID-19 illness. Females were significantly more likely to report residual symptoms including anxiety (p = 0.00

SUBMITTER: Sykes DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875681 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature