@article{Thompson_E-2022_89615,
title = {Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records},
author = {Thompson, E. and Williams, D. and Walker, A. and Mitchell, R. and Niedzwiedz, C. and Yang, T. and Huggins, C. and Kwong, A. and Silverwood, R. and Di Gessa, G. and Bowyer, R. and Northstone, K. and Hou, B. and Green, M. and Dodgeon, B. and Doores, K. and Duncan, E. and Williams, F. and Steptoe, A. and Porteous, D. and McEachan, R. and Tomlinson, L. and Goldacre, B. and Patalay, P. and Ploubidis, G. and Katikireddi, S. and Tilling, K. and Rentsch, C. and Timpson, N. and Chaturvedi, N. and Steves, C.},
month = {jun},
year = {2022},
abstract = {The frequency of, and risk factors for, long COVID are unclear among community-based individuals with a history of COVID-19. To elucidate the burden and possible causes of long COVID in the community, we coordinated analyses of survey data from 6907 individuals with self-reported COVID-19 from 10 UK longitudinal study (LS) samples and 1.1 million individuals with COVID-19 diagnostic codes in electronic healthcare records (EHR) collected by spring 2021. Proportions of presumed COVID-19 cases in LS reporting any symptoms for 12+ weeks ranged from 7.8% and 17% (with 1.2 to 4.8% reporting debilitating symptoms). Increasing age, female sex, white ethnicity, poor pre-pandemic general and mental health, overweight/obesity, and asthma were associated with prolonged symptoms in both LS and EHR data, but findings for other factors, such as cardio-metabolic parameters, were inconclusive.},
volume = {13},
journal = {Nature Communications},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30836-0},
}
