Women more at risk of developing long COVID-19: research

Women more at risk of developing long COVID-19: research
The UK examine suggests older individuals, girls, people who smoke, individuals with increased physique mass index and pre-existing medical circumstances together with anxiousness, despair, bronchial asthma, diabetes and immunosuppression usually tend to develop the long-term sickness. 

It additionally discovered COVID-19 sufferers who had been hospitalised or in ICU had been at greater than double the danger of growing lengthy COVID-19.

New research into long COVID-19
New analysis into lengthy COVID-19 reveals girls are at increased threat. (9News)

Long COVID-19 happens when somebody has ongoing signs of the sickness greater than 4 weeks after the an infection.

Symptoms embody fatigue, shortness of breath, issues with reminiscence and focus often called mind fog, a cough, complications, modifications in temper, style and scent and lots of extra.

Researchers stated the outcomes strengthened the speculation that girls had been extra liable to lengthy COVID-19 which can be as a result of hormones and antibody manufacturing.

The examine included greater than 860,000 sufferers to seek out who was on the highest threat of growing lengthy COVID-19.

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It discovered vaccination with two doses for the virus lowered the danger of growing lengthy COVID-19.

“The results of our study showed that vaccination for COVID-19 has a protective role against PCC (long COVID-19), with vaccinated individuals having a significantly lower risk compared with unvaccinated individuals,” the examine discovered.

Long COVID-19 can have damaging results with researchers discovering 15 per cent of victims are absent from work as a result of the sickness.

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Source: www.9news.com.au