COVID-19 Causes Long-Term Physical, Mental Health Problems in People of All Ages: Study

Washington, November 11: According to a new study published in the journal PLOS Medicine by Martin Roessler of Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, and colleagues, there is a significant new-onset major complication in children, adolescents, and adults across 13 distinct diagnosis and symptom complexes following COVID-19 infection.

Studies have established that some people infected with COVID-19 suffer long-term health problems following the acute phase of the disease. However, evidence on post-acute (post-COVID-19) syndrome is still limited, especially for children and adolescents. World Pneumonia Day 2022 Date and Theme: Know All About the History and Significance of the Day That Raises Awareness About the Life-Threatening Disease.

In the new study, using a healthcare dataset covering nearly half the German population and spanning all of 2019 and 2020, researchers identified patients with a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19.

They then compared the occurrence of pre-specified diagnoses, entered into the medical record at least three months post-infection, in these patients (11,950 children and adolescent and 145,184 adults) to a control cohort of more than 750,000 individuals with matched age, sex and pre-existing medical conditions, without PCR-confirmed COVID-19. China: Residents Under COVID-19 Lockdowns Complain of Food Shortages.

Overall, children and adolescents who had been infected with COVID-19 were 30% more likely than controls to have documented health problems beginning three months or more after infection (436.91 vs 335.98 per 1,000 person-years, IRR=1.30, 95% CI=1.25-1.35.

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