LONDON : Around 37% or one in three COVID-19 patients had at least one long-COVID symptom diagnosed in the three to six month period after a coronavirus infection, a new UK study reports on Wednesday.
The research from the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) investigated long-COVID in over 270,000 people recovering from COVID-19 infection, using data from the US-based TriNetX electronic health record network.
The most common long-COVID symptoms were breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain and anxiety/depression. "The results confirm that a significant proportion of people, of all ages, can be affected by a range of symptoms and