About a third of patients recovered from Covid-19 are readmitted to the hospital within five months and more than one in eight die from complications from the disease. The study was developed by the University of Leicester and the British National Statistics Institute. According to data from a study developed by the University of Leicester and the British National Statistics Institute, of the more than 47 thousand people who were discharged from hospitals in the first wave of the pandemic, 29.4% returned to the hospital within 140 days and 12.3% died due to complications. The long-term devastating effects can include heart problems, diabetes and chronic conditions in the liver and kidneys.
Kamlesh Khunti, author of the study, explained to the Telegraph that this is the study with the largest sample of people recovered after being hospitalized with Covid-19.
According to the professor of primary care for diabetes and vascular medicine, recovered people go home, suffer from long-term effects, return to the hospital and die. “Nearly 30% was readmitted [no hospital], and that is a lot of people “, says the researcher.
Khunti also explains that the recovered people do not go to the hospital due to Covid-19, but because of complications caused by the disease that still cannot be explained: “We do not know if it is because Covid destroyed the beta cells that produce insulin and the patient acquires diabetes. type 1, or if it causes insulin resistance, and the patient develops type 2, but we are seeing surprising new diagnoses of diabetes, “he concludes.
The long-term effects of Covid-19 remain unknown and new data is emerging as time passes.
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