Incidence, co-occurrence, and evolution of long-COVID features: A 6-month retrospective cohort study of 273,618 survivors of COVID-19

• Published in: PLoS medicine Vol. 18; no. 9; p. e1003773
• Main Authors: Taquet, Maxime, Dercon, Quentin, Luciano, Sierra, Geddes, John R., Husain, Masud, Harrison, Paul J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 28.09.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Abdomen; Age; Anxieties; Anxiety; Atopic dermatitis; Cardiovascular disease; Chest; Codes; Cognitive ability; Cohort analysis; Computer and Information Sciences; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Dementia; Demography; Electronic health records; Electronic medical records; Ethnicity; Fatigue; Headache; Headaches; Illnesses; Influenza; Long COVID; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental depression; Myalgia; Pain; Patients; Risk factors; United Kingdom; United States > US

Long-COVID refers to a variety of symptoms affecting different organs reported by people following Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. To date, there have been no robust estimates of the incidence and co-occurrence of long-COVID features, their relationship to age, sex, or severity of inf...