Scriptures of the Medical School of the University of Washington University in St. Louis revealed that those who hurt COVID-19 and recovered, including those who have no symptoms are not difficult for hospitalization, have an increased risk of death within six months after diagnosis. This is reported in an article published in the journal Nature.
In the course of the study, experts analyzed data on 87 thousand patients with COVID-19 and five million people from the control group. It turned out that even those who have suffered a light form of COVID-19 increases the likelihood of death, and it grows with the severity of infection. The protracted effects from this disease can last for many years and even decades, so such patients require comprehensive multidisciplinary assistance.
During the first six months after recovery, the risk of death has increased by almost 60 percent compared to the population as a whole. After six months, excessive mortality among all survivors after COVID-19 was estimated at eight people per 1000 patients. At hospitalized patients, this indicator grown to 39 thousands of patients.
Researchers confirmed that, despite the fact that initially SARS-COV-2 was considered as a respiratory virus, a long-term COVID-19 is dangerous in that it may affect almost all organs in the body.