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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Long-COVID-19 in Asymptomatic, Non-Hospitalized, and Hospitalized Populations: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Aysegul Bostanci, Umut Gazi, Ozgur Tosun, Kaya Suer, Emine Unal Evren, Hakan Evren, Tamer Sanlidag

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aysegul BostanciDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia 99138, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0003-4319-9032
Umut GaziDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia 99138, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0001-9945-478X
Ozgur TosunDepartment of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia 99138, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0003-1995-9425
Kaya SuerDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia 99138, Cyprus.
Emine Unal EvrenDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kyrenia, Kyrenia 99320, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0001-9455-0473
Hakan EvrenDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kyrenia, Kyrenia 99320, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0001-8247-8144
Tamer SanlidagDESAM Research Institute, Near East University, Nicosia 99138, Cyprus.
Near East University · CYUniversity of Kyrenia · CY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A substantial proportion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors continue to suffer from long-COVID-19 (LC) symptoms. Our study aimed to determine the risk factors for LC by using a patient population from Northern Cyprus. Subjects who were diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in our university hospital were invited and asked to fill in an online questionnaire. Data from 296 survivors who had recovered from COVID-19 infection at least 28 days prior the study was used in the statistical analysis. For determination of risk factors for "ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 (OSC)" and "Post-COVID-19 (PSC)" syndromes, the patient population was further divided into group 1 (Gr1) and group 2 (Gr2), that included survivors who were diagnosed with COVID-19 within 4-12 weeks and at least three months prior the study, respectively. The number of people with post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection was 266 (89.9%). B.1.617.2 (Delta) (41.9%) was the most common SARS-CoV-2 variant responsible for the infections, followed by BA.1 (Omicron) (34.8%), B.1.1.7 (Alpha) (15.5%), and wild-type SARS-CoV-2 (7.8%). One-hundred-and-nineteen volunteers (40.2%) stated an increased frequency of COVID-19-related symptoms and experienced the symptoms in the week prior to the study. Of those, 81 (38.8%) and 38 (43.7%) were from Gr1 and Gr2 groups, respectively. Female gender, chronic illness, and symptomatic status at PCR testing were identified as risk factors for developing OSC syndrome, while only the latter showed a similar association with PSC symptoms. Our results also suggested that ongoing and persistent COVID-19-related symptoms are not influenced by the initial viral cycle threshold (Ct) values of the SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-2 variant as well as vaccination status and type prior to COVID-19. Therefore, strategies other than vaccination are needed to combat the long-term effect of COVID-19, especially after symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, and their possible economic burden on healthcare settings.

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asymptomaticcross-sectional studylong COVIDPost-COVID-19 syndromequestionnairerisk factorssymptomatic

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PMID37048697
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