Persistent Symptoms in Adult Patients 1 Year After Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long COVID is defined as the persistence of symptoms beyond 3 months after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. To better understand the long-term course and etiology of symptoms we analyzed a cohort of patients with COVID-19 prospectively.

Methods

Patients were included at 5 months after acute COVID-19 in this prospective, noninterventional, follow-up study. Patients followed until 12 months after COVID-19 symptom onset (n = 96; 32.3% hospitalized, 55.2% females) were included in this analysis of symptoms, quality of life (based on an SF-12 survey), laboratory parameters including antinuclear antibodies (ANAs), and SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels.

Results

At month 12, only 22.9% of patients were completely free of symptoms and

SUBMITTER: Seeßle J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8394862 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature