Study pinpoints risk factors for long-term COVID-19

A study published Jan. 18 found that patients with long-term exposure to COVID-19 are at higher risk of lung, diabetic, neurological and psychiatric illness six months after the onset of the primary infection.

Physicians wrote of their findings that the increase in health care visits for post-COVID-19 conditions could “create a significant burden on patients and the healthcare systems that treat them.”

Vaccinated people have been found to have a lower risk for the above factors than unvaccinated people, according to a study published in JAMA and under the guidance of Stephanie Richard, Ph.D., Simon Pollett and Anthony Fries, Ph.D. also found.

Notably, their study found that vaccination, even after the onset of infection, also reduces risk factors after COVID-19.

“Our observational data offer additional evidence that post-infection vaccination may mitigate PCC,” they concluded.

About 2,000 American adults took part in the study.

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