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Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records

Thompson, Ellen J; Williams, Dylan M; Walker, Alex J; Mitchell, Ruth E; Niedzwiedz, Claire L; Yang, Tiffany C; Huggins, Charlotte F; ... Steves, Claire J; + view all (2022) Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records. Nature Communications , 13 (1) , Article 3528. 10.1038/s41467-022-30836-0. Green open access

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Abstract

The frequency of, and risk factors for, long COVID are unclear among community-based individuals with a history of COVID-19. To elucidate the burden and possible causes of long COVID in the community, we coordinated analyses of survey data from 6907 individuals with self-reported COVID-19 from 10 UK longitudinal study (LS) samples and 1.1 million individuals with COVID-19 diagnostic codes in electronic healthcare records (EHR) collected by spring 2021. Proportions of presumed COVID-19 cases in LS reporting any symptoms for 12+ weeks ranged from 7.8% and 17% (with 1.2 to 4.8% reporting debilitating symptoms). Increasing age, female sex, white ethnicity, poor pre-pandemic general and mental health, overweight/obesity, and asthma were associated with prolonged symptoms in both LS and EHR data, but findings for other factors, such as cardio-metabolic parameters, were inconclusive.

Type: Article
Title: Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30836-0
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30836-0
Language: English
Additional information: © 2022 Springer Nature Limited. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: COVID-19, Electronic Health Records, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, United Kingdom
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151560
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