Clinical and biochemical characteristics of people experiencing post-coronavirus disease 2019-related symptoms: A prospective follow-up investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Post-acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) syndrome, also known as long COVID, is a prolonged illness after the acute phase of COVID-19. Hospitalized patients were known to have persisting symptoms of fatigue, headache, dyspnea, and anosmia. There is a need to describe the characteristics of individuals with post-COVID-19 symptoms in comparison to the baseline characteristics.

Purpose

To investigate the clinical and biochemical characteristics of people who recovered from COVID-19 after 6 months of discharge from the hospital.

Methods

This was a prospective follow-up investigation of hospitalized and discharged COVID-19 patients. Adult patients admitted to King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 and di

SUBMITTER: Alfadda AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9763306 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature