Covid-19 Long-term effects can lead to problems with the heart, diabetes, chronic liver and kidneys, according to a report by the University of Leicester and the Office for National Statistics.
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Leicester and the Office of National Statistics (ONS), one in eight ‘recovered’ Covid-19 patients dies within 140 days.
The report found that 29.4 per cent of patients discharged from Covid-19 had re-emerged and re-admitted health problems, of which 12.3 per cent died following complications.
One of the writers of the research, Professor Kamlesh Khunti said: “People seem to be going home, having long-term consequences, coming back and dying. We see that almost 30% of such patients have have been re-admitted, and that’s a lot of people. The numbers are so high.”
Khunti said that health systems need to build proactive strategies and plans to counter Covid-19’s long term.
In the report, the researchers studied 47,780 patients discharged and found that the long-term effects of Covid-19 could lead to problems with the heart, diabetes, chronic liver and kidneys.
In addition, people under 70 years of age have had lung, heart, kidney, and liver problems, and new cases of diabetes have been identified weeks or even months after the infection has healed.
The Professor added: “We don’t know if it’s because Covid-19 destroyed the beta cells that make insulin and you get type 1 diabetes, or if it causes insulin resistance, and you develop type 2, but we’re seeing these surprising new diagnoses of diabetes.”
Long Covid-19 is a disease in which the infection is removed within weeks of leaving a patient with one or more chronic symptoms. This involves breathing difficulties, knee pain, chest pain, loss of taste or scent, exhaustion, among others.
