«Long covid» most common in middle-aged women. What are their ailments?

Middle-aged women who have been hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to experience long-term, debilitating effects of the disease such as fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle pain, depression and so-called “Brain fog”.

1. 70 percent patients complained of ailments resulting from infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which persisted even five months after leaving the hospital
2. This group was dominated by women aged 40-60
3. It was also established that the risk of the so-called long covid grows in people who have comorbidities and have been mechanically ventilated
4. Another study also found that women under 50 were five times less likely to report a feeling of complete recovery
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As shown by the PHOSP-COVID 7 study, out of 10 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 reported various disturbing symptoms even five months after discharge from the hospital, and these symptoms were more common in women aged 40-60 years

Long covid: decreased efficiency, symptoms of depression

Only 29 percent. out of 1077 patients tested felt they had fully recovered. More than a quarter had clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and depression, 12% had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, 17% had mild cognitive impairment, 46 percent had lower physical fitness than the control group. The presence of two or more comorbidities and the receipt of mechanical ventilation further increased the risk of developing long covids.

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Surviving SARS-CoV-2 infection and its consequences also contributed to the return of patients to work. Before being admitted to hospital, 68 percent. of patients worked full-time, but 18 percent. of them did not return to work, and 19 percent. had to change the way they work due to the long-term effects of the disease.

Women feel less likely to have recovered

A second, smaller study by the International Severe Acute Respiratory and New Infections Consortium (ISARIC) found that women under 50 were five times less likely to report a feeling of complete recovery, were twice as likely to report fatigue, and seven times more likely to be out of breath. More than half of the 327 patients assessed in this study did not feel fully recovered seven months after discharge from hospital.

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Chris Brightling, professor of pulmonology at the University of Leicester and overseeing the PHOSP-COVID study, speculated that gender differences in immune responses may be responsible for the higher incidence of long covid in women, stressing that autoimmune diseases are also more common in women than men.

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