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Updated:06/06/2022 20:15h
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Almost 40% of people with persistent Covid suffer from a problem related to sleep. It has been seen by a team of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic (USA) who presented at the SLEEP 2022 meeting.
The analysis also showed that patients with moderate-to-severe sleep disturbances, compared with normal-to-mild ones, had higher body mass indexes, and had worse general anxiety disorder. After adjusting for demographic data, black patients were three times more likely to have moderate to severe sleep disturbances.
The team analyzed data collected from 962 patients with Long Covid or persistent Covid between February 2021 and April 2022.
The patients recovered from Covid-19 and completed the sleep disturbance and fatigue questionnaires.
More than two-thirds of patients (67.2%) reported at least moderate fatigue, while 21.8% indicated severe fatigue. 8% of patients reported severe sleep disturbances, while 41.3% reported moderate sleep disturbances.
“Sleep difficulties are a prevalent and debilitating symptom reported in patients with persistent Covid-19,” he said. Cinthya Pena Orbea. “So we leveraged data from the Cleveland Clinic’s reCOVer Clinic for people with long-term Covid-19 to further elucidate these associations.”
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