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One in eight people who become infected with the coronavirus has long-term complaints or ‘long covid’. This is shown by a large-scale population survey in the Netherlands. These include chest pain, loss of smell and taste, shortness of breath, fatigue or muscle pain.
Bron: BELGIAN
The researchers from the university hospitals of Groningen and Radboud University examined the health data of nearly 13,000 Dutch people, who have regularly completed questionnaires about their health since March 2020.
The researchers compared the complaints of people who contracted corona with the complaints they had before they became infected and with the health complaints of people who did not have corona in the same period. The results will be published in the renowned science magazine The Lancet on Friday.
Lead researcher Judith Rosmalen now wants to further investigate the causes of lung covid, as well as the extent to which people with long-term corona symptoms can still function, for example at work. “We also ask what care people have received and how they experience it,” says the professor of psychosomatics. “With all the data, care pathways are developed to provide patients with the right care and to calculate the social costs, both through medical costs and productivity losses.”