Only around one in four patients hospitalized for Covid-19 had fully recovered after a year, a British study showed on Sunday which specifies that being a woman or obese increases the risk of maintaining health problems.
This study, presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Lisbon and published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, used adult patient data from 39 UK National Health Service (NHS) hospitals between March 7, 2020 and April 18, 2021.
Recovery was assessed using measures of different patient test results five months and one year after discharge from hospital.
In particular, the researchers took blood samples from the participants during the five-month visit to analyze the presence of various inflammatory proteins.
Some 2,320 patients were examined five months after their discharge and 33% of them were examined a year later.