30% of COVID-19 patients developed the condition known as long COVID, a new study finds.
The UCLA study, meanwhile, included patients still having symptoms 60 to 90 days after infection. Still, the UCLA research team looked at demographics and clinical characteristics in an attempt to develop effective treatments.
.were most likely to develop long COVID, researchers said. The kind of insurance the patients had also seemed to be a factor, though the researchers didn’t offer a reason why. “Surprisingly, patients with commercial insurance had double the likelihood of developing [long COVID] compared to patients with Medicaid,” according to the study. “This association will be important to explore further to understand if insurance status in this group is representing unmeasured demographic factors or exposures.” Older age, and socioeconomic status were not associated with long COVID in the study -- a surprise because those characteristics are often linked with severe illness and higher risk of death from COVID-19, UCLA said. Weaknesses in the study include the subjective nature of how patients rated their symptoms and the limited number of symptoms evaluated, UCLA said. “This study illustrates the need to follow diverse patient populations … to understand the long COVID disease trajectory and evaluate how individual factors such as pre-existing co-morbidities, sociodemographic factors, vaccination status and virus variant type affect type and persistence of long COVID symptoms,” said Sun Yoo, MD, health sciences assistant clinical professor at the UCLA school of medicine.: “Factors Associated with Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 After Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-19 in the Inpatient and Outpatient Setting in a Diverse Cohort.”Government Accountability Office: “Science & Tech Spotlight: Long COVID.”University of California-Davis: “Long COVID: Some COVID-19 symptoms last for months.”
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