A nationwide study co-led by the University of Utah Health was among the first to look at the relationship between prenatal infection and long COVID.
Julie Washington, cleveland.comPrior research showed that pregnant women infected with the virus were more likely to suffer hospitalization and death, and that COVID-19 in pregnancy also carries a higher risk of stillbirth and preterm birth.
The study looked at 1,502 American women from December 2021 to September 2023 who had been sick with COVID-19 for the first time while pregnant, and had long covid symptoms at least six months after infection. The most common long COVID symptoms were tiredness after exertion , fatigue and gastrointestinal symptoms .
“Our results highlight that people who were pregnant when they got COVID-19 may have significant long-term symptoms after pregnancy, like fatigue even after simple activities that they did before the infection,” saidMany otherwise healthy women experience a host of symptoms that can mimic long COVID in pregnancy and early postpartum, making diagnosis difficult, saidPrevious estimates of long COVID rates following infection in the general population range from 10% to over 20%, putting the...
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