New study: high proportion of long-term symptoms in patients with new crown

Xinhua News Agency, London, October 3 (Reporter Guo Shuang) A new study led by the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom showed that more than one-third of patients with COVID-19 still have at least one long-term symptom within 3 to 6 months after infection
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Previous studies on the long-term symptoms of COVID-19 were mostly based on patients’ own reports or small-scale surveys.
This new study published in the "Public Library of Science and Medicine" is based on the health records of more than 270,000 COVID-19 patients in the United States.
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Researchers from Oxford University and the UK National Institute of Health and other institutions analyzed the data and found that about 57% of new crown patients reported at least one long-term symptom within 6 months after infection, and 37% of the patients’ long-term symptoms were after infection It still exists for 3 to 6 months
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Studies have also shown that multiple factors such as the severity of the new crown infection, the age and gender of the infected person will affect the long-term symptoms that patients may experience
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However, the researchers also pointed out that this study has limitations.
For example, it only focuses on the 9 most common long-term symptoms of patients with new crowns, while previous studies have shown that about 200 long-term symptoms have been found
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According to estimates by the National Statistics Office of the United Kingdom, about 970,000 Britons continue to experience symptoms after contracting the new crown