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There is an increasing amount of talk about complications after the coronavirus, often referred to as the COVID-19 long tail. It has become clear that defeating the pathogen is not the end of health problems, and even 80% of them may experience them. convalescents. How long can it take? And what ailments were most often reported by people after COVID-19? The answers came from a study of specialists from a research institute in San Diego.
- Scientific research shows that approx. 80 percent. convalescents have at least one long covid symptom
- San Diego researchers found the body takes about two to three months to recover from COVID-19
- Among the subjects there was a group of convalescents who struggled with complications for over four months
- What determines the recovery time and emerging complications? Researchers at the Scripps Research Translational Institute have some answer
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COVID-19 long tail. How long does the body recover from illness?
The effects of COVID-19 became a source of attention last year. There were more people who defeated the coronavirus, but did not recover. Many of them are young people who had no previous health problems. These complications have come to be referred to as COVID-19 long tail or long tail.
Today it is estimated that up to 80% of them may experience them. convalescents. What’s more, doctors admit that they may turn out to be a bigger problem than getting COVID-19. – Someone who breathed a breath that the coronavirus did not cause him more troublesome disease symptoms and naively assumed that he had excellent immunity, may unfortunately – after some time – be affected by post-covid complications – recently warned Prof. Maciej Banach from the Medical University of Łódź.
So how long does it really take to recover from COVID-19? The answer came from an analysis by scientists from the Scripps Research Translational Institute – a research institute in San Diego, California. Interestingly, in the study, researchers used hundreds of fitness watches and activity monitors provided by convalescents.
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Using data from these devices, researchers found that it takes an average of two to three months for the body to recover from COVID-19. In some cases, the complications were high, for more than four months. Detailed analyzes showed what the duration of postcovid complications might depend on and what the most common complaints were.
What determines the speed of recovery from COVID0-19? Possible answer
People whose recovery after contracting the coronavirus lasted two or three months, most often struggled with a faster resting heart rate, excessive sleepiness or decreased physical activity.
The study also showed that a higher resting heart rate is common after contracting COVID-19, which lasts an average of about two and a half months. On the other hand, initial physical activity (measured by the number of steps) usually returns to normal after about a month. Sleep duration stabilizes after about 24 days.
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Analyzes also revealed a group of convalescents who had been struggling with complications for over four months – they constituted approx. 14 percent. subjects. As noted by the scientists, this small subgroup had greater problems. Their devices showed an unusually fast resting heart rate. Interestingly, their symptoms early in COVID-19 were also more severe – meanwhile, it has been suggested so far that many long-tail COVID-19 people experienced only mild initial symptoms.
Our data suggests that the severity of early symptoms and the increase in resting heart rate in the onset of COVID-19 could be a predictor of how long it takes to recover from this virus, says epidemiologist Jennifer Radin. The researcher points out that, inter alia, with more comprehensive results reported by study participants, it will be possible to better understand ‘why some people recover faster or differently than others’.
Finally, the important advice of the aforementioned prof. Maciej Banach. – If we cannot recover from COVID-19, we are weak, we do not have the old exercise capacity, we have shortness of breath, let’s not underestimate it, let us see a doctor – appeals the cardiologist and epidemiologist of heart and vascular diseases.
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