An estimated 63% of global long Covid cases are in women, the researchers said, and 43% of patients admitted to the ICU developed persistent symptoms.
Women are more likely to develop Long Covid, researchers found.An estimated 6% of people with symptomatic Covid infections develop persistent symptoms months after the initial infection, according to an analysis of published studies and medical records with data on 1.2 million Covid patients from 22 countries.
An estimated 43% of patients admitted to the ICU experienced at least one of the symptom clusters three months after infection, the study found, compared to 28% of those admitted to general hospital wards and just 6% for those who weren’t hospitalized.
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