epidemiology

Persistent Symptoms and Associated Risk Factors of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study in Minia, Upper Egypt Bassem, Asmaa; Hussein, Amal; Sharawe Taha, Mohamed Ahmed; El Sayed, Salah Mohamed; Sadek, Eman Mohamed; AlRasheed, Hayam Ali; Bahaa, Mostafa M.; Kamal, Marwa BACKGROUND A significant...

Post COVID-19 among young adults– prevalence and associations with general health, stress, and lifestyle factors Ekström, Sandra; Mogensen, Ida; Ödling, Maria; Georgelis, Antonios; Merritt, Anne-Sophie; Björkander, Sophia; Melén, Erik; Bergström, Anna; Kull, Inger BACKGROUND The prevalence of...

Pediatric Gastrointestinal Tract Outcomes During the Postacute Phase of COVID-19 Dazheng Zhang et 84 al. for the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative IMPORTANCE The profile of gastrointestinal (GI) tract outcomes associated with the postacute and chronic phases of COVID-19...

Long-COVID incidence proportion in adults and children between 2020 and 2024 Mandel, Hannah; Yoo, Yun J; Allen, Andrea J; Abedian, Sajjad; Verzani, Zoe; Karlson, Elizabeth W; Kleinman, Lawrence C; Mudumbi, Praveen C; Oliveira, Carlos R; Muszynski, Jennifer A; Gross, Rachel S; Carton, Thomas W...

Association of cognitive deficits with sociodemographic characteristics among adults with post-COVID conditions: Findings from the United States household pulse survey Wu, Daniel J; Liu, Nianjun People infected with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) may continue to experience symptoms for...

Prevalence of Long COVID-19 among Home-treated COVID-19 Patients in Baghdad, Iraq 2023 Majid, Ali Maher; Al-Rubaey, Mazin Ghazi Jassim; Jasim, Saeb Background: The term “long-COVID-19” describes the condition of individuals who have either recovered from the acute phase of COVID-19 but are...

Sex Differences in Long COVID Dimpy P. Shah et 1226 al. IMPORTANCE A substantial number of individuals worldwide experience long COVID, or post-COVID condition. Other postviral and autoimmune conditions have a female predominance, but whether the same is true for long COVID, especially within...

COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-5-years-later-learning-pandemic-many-are-forgetting (I added some line breaks and bolding...

COVID-19 Reproduction Numbers and Long COVID Prevalences in California State Prisons Lee Worden; Rae Wannier; Helena Archer; Seth Blumberg; Ada T Kwan; David Sears; Travis C Porco Prisons have been hotspots for COVID-19 and likely an important driver of racial disparity in disease burden. From...

Phase-dependent trends in the prevalence of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome ME/CFS related to long COVID: A criteria-based retrospective study in Japan Satoru Morita; Kazuki Tokumasu; Yuki Otsuka; Hiroyuki Honda; Yasuhiro Nakano; Naruhiko Sunada; Yasue Sakurada; Yui Matsuda...

Abstract Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a tragedy. It has devastated the health and financial well-being of many people around the world. Fatigue is one of the common symptoms and complications of covid-19, which can continue in patients for a long time after infection. The present...

Incidence of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms across healthcare settings in seven countries: an international retrospective cohort study using routinely-collected data Junqing Xie; Kim López-Güell; Daniel Dedman; Talita Duarte-Salles; Raivo Kolde; Raúl López-Blasco; Álvaro Martínez; Gregoire...

Background: The high global burden of Long Covid (LC) has significant implications for population wellbeing, healthcare, social care and national economies. Aim: To explore associations between patient sociodemographic and health characteristics with two outcomes: reporting having LC and...

Post-COVID-19 condition symptoms among emergency department patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection Archambault, Patrick M.; Rosychuk, Rhonda J.; Audet, Martyne; Hau, Jeffrey P.; Graves, Lorraine; Décary, Simon; Perry, Jeffrey J.; Brooks, Steven C.; Morrison, Laurie J.; Daoust, Raoul; Yeom...

Incidence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in a large prospective cohort of U.S. nurses Natalia Palacios, Kathryn Fitzgerald, Anthony Komaroff, Alberto Ascherio ABSTRACT Background: The incidence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), the rates of...

Impact of COVID-19 on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome-like illness prevalence: A cross-sectional survey Mariah S. Wood; Nicole Halmer; Jeanne Bertolli; Laura B. Amsden; Joshua R. Nugent; Jin-Mann S. Lin; Gretchen Rothrock; Joelle Nadle; Shua J. Chai; Jennifer R. Cope; Jamila...

Highlights • Persistent symptoms were greater following the first SARS-CoV-2 infection. • The most frequent persistent symptoms were fatigue, tiredness and shortness of breath. • Proportion of persistent symptoms varied by variant of infection. • A reduction of persistent symptoms after COVID-19...

Epidemiologic Features of Recovery From SARS-CoV-2 Infection https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820087 Findings In this cohort study of 4708 participants in a US meta-cohort, the median self-reported time to recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection was 20 days, and an...

Substack article by Christine Pagel Link to Substack post Guest post: A terrible academic paper has fueled renewed anti-vax journalism - it must be retracted A debunk and a plea for retraction from actuary Stuart McDonald _____________________________ The BMJ article criticised here is...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.16.24307437v1 Epidemiology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis among individuals with self-reported Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in British Columbia, Canada, and their health-related quality of life Enkhzaya Chuluunbaatar-Lussier, Melody Tsai, Travis...