Covid: longer covid, after 1 year
A new study assessed the one-year outcome of hospital survivors in China who had had Covid-19 (see covid 1 yr outcome after hosp lancet2021 in dropbox , or doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01755-4 ) Details: -- 1276 Covid-19 survivors who were in the Jin-Yin-Tan hospital between January 7 and May 29, 2020, then followed at 6 months and 12 months (58% of the 2469 people discharged from the hospital completed the 6- and 12-month follow-up visits) -- mean age 59, 53% men, never smoker 82%/current smoker 7%/former smoker 11% , hypertension 36%/diabetes 15%/coronary heart disease 8% -- Covid-19 severity scale: hospitalization not requiring supplemental oxygen (scale 3) in 25%; hospitalization requiring supplemental oxygen (scale 4) in 68%; hospitalization requiring high flow oxygen by nasal cannula or nasal cannula oxygen non-invasive mechanical ventilation (scale 5) in 7%; hospitalization requiring ECMO or IMV (scal...