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The 4 Worst Long-Term Effects You'll Have From COVID, Study Finds - Best Life
Aug 07, 2020 1 min, 14 secs
and won't know for years what havoc it wreaks in the long run, this new study suggests that COVID patients do not return completely to "normal." Here are the four ways the coronavirus can stay with you for months—or maybe even years—according to COVID survivors.

Researchers interviewed 100 COVID survivors—including both patients who were admitted to the ICU and those who were hospitalized with less serious cases—and learned that 72 percent of the ICU group and 60 percent of the non-ICU group experienced fatigue after being discharged.

The study states that "new or worsened breathlessness…was a significant symptom even several weeks post-discharge" for about 65 percent of ICU patients and 43 percent of the other hospitalized group.

Of those who noted that symptom, 66 and 60 percent, respectively, had "a preexisting respiratory condition." Among ICU patients aged 60 or older, 92 percent reported breathlessness, but that proportion dropped to 47 percent in younger patients.

And for more ways COVID affects you, check out Half of COVID Patients Have Damage to This Vital Organ, New Study Says.

Almost half of the ICU group—47 percent—and 24 percent of the non-ICU group reported experiencing neuropsychological symptoms, including signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, after being discharged.

In a recent Italian study, 56 percent of former COVID patients interviewed showed signs of at least one mental disorder, and some survivors have even reported experiencing stress-related hair loss.

Of the ICU group, 69 percent told researchers that their quality of life had been negatively impacted, compared to 46 percent of the non-ICU group.

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