Pharmacy Daily | Guild Update 10 May 22

A NEW study finds the effects of long-term COVID-19 are more likely to be found in women, obese people and those on mechanical ventilation. The UK study also found only one in four patients hospitalised with COVID-19 said they were fully recovered 12 months later. The study also reported that the most common ongoing long-COVID-19 symptoms were fatigue, muscle pain, physically slowing down, poor sleep and breathlessness. The researchers stated that long COVID-19 was becoming a highly prevalent new long-term condition. The study in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine reported more than 2,000 patients were studied posthospitalisation, to determine the impact of long COVID. It found women were 32 per cent less likely to be fully recovered after a year. Those who were obese half as likely, and those on mechanical ventilation were 5 per cent less likely to be fully recovered after one year. The full report can be accessed here.

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