Study suggests physicians may need to follow patients with both conditions more closely. A study led by the National Institutes of Health's RECOVER Initiative and supported by NYU Langone Health found that sleep apnea significantly increases the risk of long COVID in adults. The research team ana
To better understand links between sleep apnea and long-term COVID symptoms, the research team reviewed data across three RECOVER research networks of patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 between March 2020 and February 2022, according to their health records. Two networks included adult patients – the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network with 330,000 patients – and the National COVID Cohort Collaborative with 1.7 million patients.
“A strength of the work is that the link between sleep apnea and long COVID persisted regardless of how the researchers in our study defined long COVID or gathered datasays senior study author Lorna Thorpe, PhD, MPH, Professor and Director of the Division of Epidemiology at NYU Langone Health. She is also co-lead of efforts to understand long COVID using electronic health record networks for the RECOVER CSC at NYU Langone.
“There’s still so much to uncover about long COVID, but this study will inform clinical care by identifying patients that should be watched more closely,” says corresponding author Hannah Mandel, a senior research scientist for the electronic health record studies arm of the RECOVER CSC at NYU Langone Health.
with diagnosed sleep apnea in their medical records may have more severe conditions than men, in part because women with sleep apnea tend to go undiagnosed with OSA for longer.infection associated with pre-coronavirus disease obstructive sleep apnea diagnoses: an electronic health recordbased analysis from the researching coronavirus disease to enhance recovery initiative” 11 May 2023, Sleep.
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