McKnight's November 21, 2023
A new study sheds light on the number of US veterans with long COVID, and details how long they experienced lingering symptoms. There’s not much data on long COVID and veterans, which is why the authors were pleased to release the results.
According to a study that came out Nov. 15 in Annals of Epidemiology, almost half of 363,825 veterans in a study cohort who had COVID-19 still experienced symptoms six months later. Long COVID is also known as Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19, or PASC.
Risk factors for long COVID included being African American, having diabetes, being older, and having a severe case of COVID-19, according to a team from Emory University and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.
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