Sunday, 20 September 2020

New study: COVID-19 leads to long-term fatigue

New study: COVID-19 leads to long-term fatigue
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New research, published in the journal medRxiv, more than half of patients, undergoing COVID-19, experienced severe fatigue after recovery, irrespective of disease severity. Scientists are pushing for more research on the medium and long-term effects of the coronavirus.

The study involved 128 patients under the supervision of St James's Hospital in Ireland. Scientists wanted to find out how people with varying degrees of severity of the disease tolerate the effects of COVID-19 weeks after recovery. The results of the study showed that nearly 52 percent of the participants felt tired within ten weeks of the recovery from that pandemic. However, the result did not depend on the state of health during the illness. The scientists learned that it didn't matter whether the person was hospitalized or not.

The study also showed that women most often felt a simultaneous fatigue - among all patients with fatigue, they were 67 percent. People who previously suffered from depression also had increased fatigue.

The study authors argue that more work is needed to assess the long-term impact of COVID-19 on patients who have been received previously from this extreme pandemic.

Surprisingly, Coronavirus is not the first dangerous disease to have such symptoms. There are also diseases like Pneumonia and glandular fever are often accompanied by "chronic fatigue syndrome" - a disease associated with overwork and loss of strength, which does not go away even after a long rest.

Source: Popmech

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