British study: a quarter of hospitalizations from Corona fully recover after a year

A British study showed that only one in four people infected with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) who received hospital treatment, fully recovered after a year, noting that the fact that the patient is a woman or suffers from obesity increases the risk of continuing health problems.

The study, presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Lisbon and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, used data from adult patients at 39 NHS hospitals in Britain between March 7, 2020 and April 18, 2021.

Recovery was assessed using different patient test outcome measures over five months and one year after hospital discharge.

The researchers took blood samples from the participants during the five-month stay to analyze the presence of different inflammatory proteins.

About 2,320 patients were examined five months after their discharge, and 33 percent were examined after a year.

The study found that the proportion of adults who made a full recovery did not change significantly between five months and a year after their discharge from hospital: 25.5 percent for patients examined after five months and 28.9 percent for those who remained in hospital after a year.

The study also indicated that the fact that the patient is female, obese, and uses a ventilator in the hospital, are factors associated with a lower probability of full recovery after one year.

The most common symptoms of long-term COVID-19 include fatigue, muscle aches, lethargy, restlessness and shortness of breath.

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