Medical Xpress March 13, 2025
Barcelona Institute for Global Health

Some 23% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 between 2021 and 2023 developed long COVID, and in more than half of them the symptoms persisted for two years. These are the main conclusions of a study conducted by ISGlobal in collaboration with the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), as part of the European END-VOC project.

The risk of developing long COVID depends on several factors, according to results published in BMC Medicine.

After overcoming an initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, some people develop long COVID. It manifests itself with symptoms that persist for at least three months, including respiratory, neurological, digestive or general symptoms, such as fatigue and exhaustion. Most studies of long COVID have been conducted in a clinical context,...

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