Women are more likely to have this long-term symptom COVID, the study says

More than half of Covid patients are likely to know that, most of them are women.


We all know now that coronavirus can affect people differently depending on a number of factors, such as your age or if you are dealing with an underlying medical condition. even yourSex can dictate your Covid experience. In fact, according to a new study, there is along-term covid symptom that women are more likely to experience:tired.

This finding comes from an Irish recent study that observed 128COVID Patients Positive who have been tested at St. James Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Researchers found that more than half of these participants (52.3 percent) reported persistent fatigue, even 10 weeks after the healing of the supposed infection no matter howTheir serious cases of COVID was.

But while thislong-term symptoms can clearly affect everyoneHe was more common among women studied. Just over half (54 percent) of patients were women, but they represented two-thirds (67 percent) of those who reported persistent fatigue.

If yes or no the participants had beenhospitalized for coronavirus did not affect the probability of experiencing fatigue. According to the study, only 71 of the 128 participants were admitted to the hospital, while 57 were not.

"Fatigue was found to occur independent of admission to the hospital, which affects both groups too, "the co-author studyLiam Townsend, PhD, doctor of infectious diseases at St James Hospital, in a statement.

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In addition, in a study of 1567 recent long (Haurs people with long-term coronavirus symptoms) of survivor body-a Facebook group of Covid-19 survivors-100 percent of respondentsreported having suffered fatigue.

It is hardly the first time a similar respiratory virus has trainedExtreme Fatigue. Following severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which was also caused by a coronavirus, a 2011 study published in theBMC Neurology review examined a subset of patients in Canada whoexperienced such persistent fatigue that they could not even return to work a year after their illness. And of the 22 patients who have made this experience, 19 of them were also women.

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"There is a huge number of patients who are recovering from SARS-COV-2 infection around the world. TOlong burden of post-infection fatigue Will harm the quality of life and will have a significant impact on individuals, employers and health systems, "said the study. "These important first observations highlight a new problem. And if you think you could have struggled against Covid, seeYou could have HAD You Had Covid if this symptom in December reveals a study.

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