Burdens of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 by severity of acute infection, demographics and health status

Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, or ‘Long COVID’) has caused concern but the burden and risk factors are not well understood. Here, the authors use US electronic health record data and estimate an overall burden of PASC of ~7% at six months, with variation by severity of acute infection, basel...

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Main Authors: Yan Xie, Benjamin Bowe, Ziyad Al-Aly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26513-3