In their previously unpublished PHOSP-COVID study, University of Leicester study author Rachel Evans and Professor Chris Brightling looked at 1,077 people affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection and found that only 29 percent of them had fully recovered after severe hospitalization.
Five months after surviving the disease, they were given a second final examination. The scientists noted that 70 percent of those affected had to deal with long-term consequences.
Middle-aged women between 40 and 60 years of age were particularly prominent. They had the most and most severe Long Covid symptoms with fatigue and shortness of breath/breathlessness, but also muscle pain, depression and anxiety. The severity of the infection experienced is not decisive for the severity of the Long Covid symptoms, the researchers of the study explain.
However, following a corona infection, 18 percent of those working had a high risk of incapacity for work following the infection event with hospitalization.
In another previously unpublished study by the ISARIC (International Severe Acute Respiratory
and emerging Infections Consortium), 50 percent of 327 people affected said after seven months that they had not recovered properly. Surprisingly, there were five times more women than men among those under 50 years of age, although in most cases they are more severely ill. Affected women with long-term sequelae also experience disabilities in mobility, communication, and memory. Vision and hearing also become increasingly difficult for women at risk for long-term effects.
The research scientists conclude that there are gender differences in the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 disease. While men are sicker on average at the time of disease, women were found to show continued inflammatory responses associated with increased autoimmune disease between the ages of 40 and 60. This immune response with increased inflammation is due to a marker that can trigger systemic inflammation in their bodies. The so-called C-reactive protein is thus responsible for immunological and chronic inflammatory reactions in the affected women, summarize the scientists of the researching institutions.
Source: www.heilpraxisnet.de