A large study has revealed that one in three Covid-19 survivors have suffered symptoms three to six months after getting infected, with breathing problems, abdominal symptoms such as abdominal pain, change of bowel habit and diarrhea, fatigue, pain, anxiety, and depression among the most common issues reported.
Researchers at the University of Oxford, the National Institute for Health Research, and the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre studied symptoms and found that the nine features of long Covid were detected by clinicians more frequently in those who had been hospitalized, and slightly more often in women.
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Older people and men were more likely to have breathing difficulties and cognitive problems, whereas young people and women reported more headaches, abdominal symptoms, anxiety, and depression. The authors stressed that although the number of such incidents was higher among the elderly and those with more severe initial illness, people who had suffered a mild disease, children, and young adults also experienced long Covid, encounter at least one symptom in the six months after recovering.
This risk of long Covid highlights cases among children has been soaring in the US since the more contagious Delta coronavirus variant became the country’s dominant strain in July.
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Source: CNN World
