The Very Long COVID: Persistence of Symptoms after 12–18 Months from the Onset of Infection and Hospitalization 2023 Ranucci et al

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization’s definition, long COVID is the persistence or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial infection. Various conditions have been explored in studies with up to one-year follow-up but very few looked further. This prospective cohort study addresses the presence of a wide spectrum of symptoms in 121 patients hospitalized during the acute phase of COVID-19 infection, and the association between factors related to the acute phase of the disease and the presence of residual symptoms after one year or longer from hospitalization. The main results are as follows: (i) post-COVID symptoms persist in up to 60% of the patient population at a mean follow-up of 17 months; (ii) the most frequent symptoms are fatigue and dyspnea, but neuropsychological disturbances persist in about 30% of the patients (iii) when corrected for the duration of follow-up with a freedom-from-event analysis; only complete (2 doses) vaccination at the time of hospital admission remained independently associated with persistence of the major physical symptoms, while vaccination and previous neuropsychological symptoms remained independently associated with persistence of major neuropsychological symptoms.

Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/5/1915

 

18 months is very long, apparently. I wonder how they will term it in 10 years, or more, time. Ancient Long COVID perhaps?

 

Interesting to compare with: https://www.s4me.info/threads/assoc...th-post-covid-pain-2023-herrero-montes.32300/

Here we at least have: BMI, hospitalisation status, length of stay, co-morbidities and smoking status. No control group however. Age range is 43 to 78 - median age appears substantially higher than the average given the split given between mild, moderate and severe at hospitalisation. Cohort is n80 male, n41 female. Obesity associated with severe, and arterial hypertension and previous smoking strongly associated with moderate and severe. 61.2% report ongoing major symptoms at follow up - strongly associated with moderate and severe at hospitalisation.

 

They're gonna make it like the electromagnetic spectrum:

• Long Covid
• Very long Covid
• Ultra long Covid
• Super long Covid
• Extremely long Covid
• Tremendously long Covid
• Infrared Covid
• Visible Covid
• Ultraviolet Covid
• X-ray Covid
• Gamma Covid

 

never will it be named visible covid maybe wishful thinking on your part.the race is already on to make it disappear .