Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records.
; Williams, DM; Walker, AJ; Mitchell, RE; Niedzwiedz, CL; Yang, TC; Huggins, CF; Kwong, AS; Silverwood, RJ; Di Gessa, G; +22 more...Bowyer, RC; Northstone, K; Hou, B; Green, MJ; Dodgeon, B; Doores, KJ; Duncan, EL; Williams, FM; OpenSAFELY Collaborative; Steptoe, A; Porteous, DJ; McEachan, RR; Tomlinson, L; Goldacre, B; Patalay, P; Ploubidis, GB; Katikireddi, SV; Tilling, K; Rentsch, CT; Timpson, NJ; Chaturvedi, N; Steves, CJ and
(2022)
Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records.
Nature Communications, 13 (1).
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30836-0
The frequency of, and risk factors for, long COVID are unclear among community-based individuals with a history of COVID-19. To elucidate the burden and possible causes of long COVID in the community, we coordinated analyses of survey data from 6907 individuals with self-reported COVID-19 from 10 UK longitudinal study (LS) samples and 1.1 million individuals with COVID-19 diagnostic codes in electronic healthcare records (EHR) collected by spring 2021. Proportions of presumed COVID-19 cases in LS reporting any symptoms for 12+ weeks ranged from 7.8% and 17% (with 1.2 to 4.8% reporting debilitating symptoms). Increasing age, female sex, white ethnicity, poor pre-pandemic general and mental health, overweight/obesity, and asthma were associated with prolonged symptoms in both LS and EHR data, but findings for other factors, such as cardio-metabolic parameters, were inconclusive.
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