Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, China.
J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2022 Dec;12(4):560-571. doi: 10.1007/s44197-022-00079-9. Epub 2022 Nov 24.
Is Long COVID-19 under-diagnosed? The definition of this new condition has received many contributions, and it is still under development as a great variety of symptoms have been associated to it. This study explores the possibility that there are non-diagnosed cases among individuals who have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 and have not been vaccinated. The long-term symptoms identified among a sample 255 individuals have been associated to Long COVID-19 by recent literature. The study relates these symptoms to risk factors and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) negative impacts. The individuals were screened 1 year after discharge to explore its potential relation to Long COVID-19. Patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and discharged from designated hospitals in a Chinese province between January and April 2020 were included in this study. They received computed tomography (CT) scans one month after discharge. One year after discharge, patients were invited to physical examination and interviewed with questionnaire on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and post-COVID-19 symptoms. Tobit regression and Logistic regression were applied to evaluate the risk factors for health utility value and pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. One year after discharge, 39.61% patients complained of several of the symptoms associated to Long COVID-19. More than half had abnormal chest CT. Previous studies focused on the post-COVID-19 symptoms and chest CT findings of patients, but few studies have assessed the COVID-19-associated risk factors for health-related quality of life.
长新冠是否被漏诊?这个新病症的定义已收到诸多贡献,且随着与之相关的各种症状被不断发现,其定义仍在发展中。本研究探讨了 SARS-CoV-2 感染者中存在未被诊断的病例的可能性,这些感染者未接种疫苗。最近的文献将在 255 名个体中发现的长期症状与长新冠联系起来。本研究将这些症状与风险因素和健康相关生活质量(HRQoL)的负面影响联系起来。在出院后 1 年对这些个体进行筛查,以探索其与长新冠之间的潜在关系。本研究纳入了 2020 年 1 月至 4 月期间在中国某省指定医院出院的 COVID-19 患者,他们在出院后一个月接受了计算机断层扫描(CT)检查。出院一年后,邀请患者进行体检并通过问卷调查了解健康相关生活质量(HRQoL)和新冠后症状。采用 Tobit 回归和 Logistic 回归评估健康效用值和疼痛/不适以及焦虑/抑郁的风险因素。出院一年后,39.61%的患者抱怨出现了几种与长新冠相关的症状。超过一半的患者 CT 胸部异常。先前的研究主要关注患者的新冠后症状和 CT 胸部检查结果,但很少有研究评估与健康相关生活质量相关的 COVID-19 相关风险因素。