Covid-19 develop another health complication, a U.K. study showed, in the broadest look yet at what happens to those sick enough to need inpatient treatment.
Though complications were most common in those over the age of 50, the study found a significant risk for younger people as well.
Among 19- to 29-year-olds hospitalized with Covid, 27% experienced a further injury or attack in an organ system in the body, while 37% of 30- to 39-year-olds experienced a similar complication, the researchers said in The Lancet on Thursday.
The study followed 73,197 patients admitted to U.K. hospitals between January and August of 2020 -- meaning it didn’t capture the impact of vaccines or improved treatments, or that of the virus variants that have