Long COVID prevalent among those bedridden for 7 days

Study comprised 64,880 adults from Nordic countries. File pic

People bedridden for at least seven days with COVID-19 showed severe physical symptoms of the disease, persisting for up to two years after diagnosis, new research in The Lancet Regional Health-Europe journal has found.

These people showed 37 per cent higher chronic symptoms associated with long COVID such as shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, headaches and fatigue than those not diagnosed with the disease, a team with researchers from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, found.

The increase in prevalence of symptoms was noted regardless of gender, age groups, existence of depressive, anxiety or COVID-19 related distress symptoms, or pre-existing comorbidity. The rise was higher among individuals without depressive or anxiety symptoms, the researchers said.

The study comprised 64,880 adults from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland with self-reported physical symptoms between April, 2020 and August, 2022. Of these, over 22,000 ere diagnosed with COVID-19 during the period.

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