Medicine, CMH Lahore Medical College & Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan.
Medicine, Hameed Latif Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 28;11(1):13414. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92717-8.
COVID-19 may manifest as mild, moderate or severe disease with each grade of severity having its own features and post-viral implications. With the rising burden of the pandemic, it is vital to identify not only active disease but any post-recovery complications as well. This study was conducted with the aim of identifying the presence of post-viral symptomatology in patients recovered from mild COVID-19 disease. Presence or absence of 11 post-viral symptoms was recorded and we found that 8 of the 11 studied symptoms were notably more prevalent amongst the female sample population. Our results validate the presence of prolonged symptoms months after recovery from mild COVID-19 disease, particularly in association with the female gender. Hence, proving the post-COVID syndrome is a recognizable diagnosis in the bigger context of the post-viral fatigue syndrome.
COVID-19 可能表现为轻度、中度或重度疾病,每种严重程度都有其自身的特征和病毒后影响。随着大流行负担的增加,不仅要识别出活跃的疾病,还要识别出任何康复后的并发症。本研究旨在确定从轻度 COVID-19 疾病中康复的患者是否存在病毒后症状。记录了 11 种病毒后症状的存在或不存在,我们发现,在所研究的 11 种症状中,有 8 种在女性样本人群中更为常见。我们的研究结果验证了从轻度 COVID-19 疾病康复后数月存在持续症状的情况,特别是与女性相关的症状。因此,在后病毒疲劳综合征的更大背景下,证明了新冠后综合征是一种可识别的诊断。