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Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review

Globally, there are now over 160 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 3 million deaths. While the majority of infected individuals recover, a significant proportion continue to experience symptoms and complications after their acute illness. Patients with ‘long COVID’ experience a wide...

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Autores principales: Aiyegbusi, Olalekan Lee, Hughes, Sarah E, Turner, Grace, Rivera, Samantha Cruz, McMullan, Christel, Chandan, Joht Singh, Haroon, Shamil, Price, Gary, Davies, Elin Haf, Nirantharakumar, Krishnarajah, Sapey, Elizabeth, Calvert, Melanie J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34265229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01410768211032850
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author Aiyegbusi, Olalekan Lee
Hughes, Sarah E
Turner, Grace
Rivera, Samantha Cruz
McMullan, Christel
Chandan, Joht Singh
Haroon, Shamil
Price, Gary
Davies, Elin Haf
Nirantharakumar, Krishnarajah
Sapey, Elizabeth
Calvert, Melanie J
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description Globally, there are now over 160 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 3 million deaths. While the majority of infected individuals recover, a significant proportion continue to experience symptoms and complications after their acute illness. Patients with ‘long COVID’ experience a wide range of physical and mental/psychological symptoms. Pooled prevalence data showed the 10 most prevalent reported symptoms were fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle pain, joint pain, headache, cough, chest pain, altered smell, altered taste and diarrhoea. Other common symptoms were cognitive impairment, memory loss, anxiety and sleep disorders. Beyond symptoms and complications, people with long COVID often reported impaired quality of life, mental health and employment issues. These individuals may require multidisciplinary care involving the long-term monitoring of symptoms, to identify potential complications, physical rehabilitation, mental health and social services support. Resilient healthcare systems are needed to ensure efficient and effective responses to future health challenges.
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spelling pubmed-84509862021-09-21 Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review Aiyegbusi, Olalekan Lee Hughes, Sarah E Turner, Grace Rivera, Samantha Cruz McMullan, Christel Chandan, Joht Singh Haroon, Shamil Price, Gary Davies, Elin Haf Nirantharakumar, Krishnarajah Sapey, Elizabeth Calvert, Melanie J J R Soc Med Review Globally, there are now over 160 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 3 million deaths. While the majority of infected individuals recover, a significant proportion continue to experience symptoms and complications after their acute illness. Patients with ‘long COVID’ experience a wide range of physical and mental/psychological symptoms. Pooled prevalence data showed the 10 most prevalent reported symptoms were fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle pain, joint pain, headache, cough, chest pain, altered smell, altered taste and diarrhoea. Other common symptoms were cognitive impairment, memory loss, anxiety and sleep disorders. Beyond symptoms and complications, people with long COVID often reported impaired quality of life, mental health and employment issues. These individuals may require multidisciplinary care involving the long-term monitoring of symptoms, to identify potential complications, physical rehabilitation, mental health and social services support. Resilient healthcare systems are needed to ensure efficient and effective responses to future health challenges. SAGE Publications 2021-07-15 2021-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8450986/ /pubmed/34265229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01410768211032850 Text en © The Royal Society of Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Rivera, Samantha Cruz
McMullan, Christel
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Haroon, Shamil
Price, Gary
Davies, Elin Haf
Nirantharakumar, Krishnarajah
Sapey, Elizabeth
Calvert, Melanie J
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