76 percent of three-quarters of Wuhan patients who were hospitalized still had symptoms after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus six months later and the proportion was higher in women, according to a new study that publication of the Lancet.
The study, which includes hundreds of patients in the Chinese city of Wuhan, is among a handful looking for long-term symptoms of Covid-19 infection.
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As per Lancet’s latest study, at six months after an infectious disease, COVID-19 survivors in Wuhan were largely troubled by muscle or muscle weakness, sleep problems, and anxiety or depression. .
“With Covid-19 being such a new disease, we are only just beginning to understand some of its long-term effects on patient health,” said lead author Bin Cao, of the National Center for Respiratory Medicine.
The professor said the research identified the need for ongoing care for patients after they are discharged from the hospital, especially those with serious illnesses.
“Our work also reinforces the importance of conducting further follow-up studies in larger numbers to understand the full spectrum of potential effects of Covid-19 on humans,” he said.
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The World Health Organization has said the virus poses a risk to some people of persistent side effects – even among young people, who were healthy or not in hospital.
The new study included 1,733 Covid-19 patients discharged from Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan between January and May last year.
Researchers also performed physical and laboratory tests.
The study found that 76 percent of patients who participated in the review (1,265 of 1,655) reported having symptoms. 63 percent were reported with muscle weakness or weakness, and 26 percent had sleep problems.
The study also looked at 94 patients whose blood antibody levels were recorded at the height of the infection as part of another trial.
When these patients were retested after six months, their levels of neutral antibodies were 52.5 percent lower.
The authors said this raises concerns about the potential for Covid-19 re-infection, although they said larger samples would be needed to clarify how immunity to the virus changes over time.
Patients, with an average age of 57, were visited between June and September and answered questions about their symptoms and health-related quality of life.
It comes as mainland China has seen the biggest daily rise in COVID-19 cases in more than five months, the country’s health authority said Monday, as new diseases in the Hebei area around Beijing spread. constantly going up.
China has been accused of covering up the uprising that first erupted in downtown Wuhan in late 2019, which critics say has delayed China’s initial response and allowed COVID- 19 spread across the globe.
Earlier, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had claimed that nearly half a million residents of Wuhan, the main heart of the novel coronavirus, could be infected with nearly 10 times the official number of cases assured.