{"id":18153,"date":"2024-08-30T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=18153"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T11:18:46","slug":"a-quarter-of-patients-in-whf-study-still-experiencing-persistent-long-covid-symptom-after-one-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/news\/a-quarter-of-patients-in-whf-study-still-experiencing-persistent-long-covid-symptom-after-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A quarter of patients in WHF Study still experiencing persistent long COVID symptom after one year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of the Global Study on Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and COVID-19, <span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">and to better understand long COVID<\/span>, especially in low-resource settings, World Heart Federation (WHF) commenced the WHF Long COVID Sub-study in early 2022. This sub-study aimed to determine the short-term (3 months), medium-term (6 months), and long-term (12 months) sequelae of COVID-19, including re-hospitalization and mortality, symptoms, impact on physical function, and psycho-social consequences. Twenty-six hospitals from 16 countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Zambia) recruited 2,535 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from January 2022 to August 2023. Subsequently, these patients were contacted via telephone for follow-up assessments at four different time points: 1-month, 3-months, 6-months, and 9-12-month after hospital discharge. Follow ups for all eligible patients were completed in January 2024, with a follow-up rate of 90%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Omicron variant was indicated in 98% of the available for over 50% of patients whose variant was recorded.<\/li>\n<li>Over half (55%) received at least two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/li>\n<li>Moderate to severe fatigue was reported by 52% after 1-Month and 26% reported moderate to severe fatigue upon final follow-up.<\/li>\n<li>After 6 months follow up 49% patients reported difficulties in usual activities, 33% reported anxiety and 23% reported mobility issues.<\/li>\n<li>The overall Study Mortality Rate is15% with sudden cardiac death (54%), respiratory disease (including pulmonary embolism) (9%) and stroke (6%) the most common causes of death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results presented at the ESC Congress 2024 reveal a significant burden of persistent long COVID symptoms among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Most patients tested positive for the Omicron variant, and the discharged population experienced substantial mortality and morbidity rates. About a quarter of these patients reported at least one persistent long COVID symptom after one year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18175 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO-2024-08-30-10-51-07-1024x788.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO-2024-08-30-10-51-07-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO-2024-08-30-10-51-07-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO-2024-08-30-10-51-07-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO-2024-08-30-10-51-07-1536x1183.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO-2024-08-30-10-51-07-1200x924.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/world-heart-federation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PHOTO-2024-08-30-10-51-07.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These findings can help identify high-risk COVID-19 patients and inform management strategies for long COVID, especially in low and middle-income countries. The final results are to be published later this year and can help guide future health care planning for the post pandemic globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of the Global Study on Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and COVID-19, and to better understand long COVID, especially in low-resource settings, World Heart Federation (WHF) commenced the WHF Long COVID Sub-study in early 2022. This sub-study aimed to determine the short-term (3 months), medium-term (6 months), and long-term (12 months) sequelae of COVID-19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18175,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"event":[],"project-campaign":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-18153","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A quarter of patients in WHF Study still experiencing persistent long COVID symptom after one year - 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