Population-Based Evaluation of Postacute Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Chronic Sequelae in Patients Who Tested Positive for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) - PubMed (original) (raw)

Population-Based Evaluation of Postacute Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) Chronic Sequelae in Patients Who Tested Positive for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Nicole H Goldhaber et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022.

Abstract

The true incidence and comprehensive characteristics of Long Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) are currently unknown. This is the first population-based outreach study of Long COVID within an entire health system, conducted to determine operational needs to care for patients with Long COVID.

Keywords: Long COVID; chronic sequelae COVID-19; post-acute COVID-19.

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America.

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Conflict of interest statement

Potential conflicts of interest. All authors: No reported conflicts of interest. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest.

Figures

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Zip code heat maps of total survey respondents and those with chronic symptoms after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. The heat map in blue displays the zip codes of the 999 survey respondents with the maximum in one zip code being 32 respondents and the minimum being 1 respondent. The heat map in orange displays the zip codes of the 421 respondents who said yes or maybe to still having symptoms after COVID-19 infection with the maximum respondents in one zip code being 12 and the minimum being 1.

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Reported symptom frequency by patients at least 90 days after coronavirus disease 2019 infection. The graphic displays the patient reported frequency of 16 symptoms that were listed on the survey on a 5-point Likert scale: Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, and Always with the number of patients versus percentage on the x-axis.

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