{"id":4405,"date":"2023-08-22T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:36:30","slug":"covid-can-leave-people-vulnerable-to-new-health-problems-2-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/22\/covid-can-leave-people-vulnerable-to-new-health-problems-2-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Can Leave People Vulnerable To New Health Problems 2 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/covid-19-boosts-risks-health-problems-2-years-later-giant-study-veterans-says\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SARS-CoV-2\u2019s public health impact is worse than that of heart disease or cancer, study claims; others say the work may overestimate harm for the general population<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-and-a-half years since SARS-CoV-2 spread around the world, scientists are still documenting the virus\u2019 myriad effects on human health. What\u2019s clear already is that those effects can continue long beyond the original infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, researchers have attempted to quantify this long-term harm using a massive database of U.S. veterans\u2019 health records. They found a dramatically increased risk of dozens of conditions including heart failure and fatigue, sometimes years postinfection. Overall, the team estimates, COVID-19\u2019s public health impact is more than 50% greater than that of cancer or heart disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other researchers say the conclusions broadly reflect what physicians have seen. However, several cite drawbacks in the study\u2019s statistical analysis that could have led it to overestimate harm to the general population. \u201cThe authors have done a good job in doing the analysis, but there are some limitations and those limitations are not small,\u201d says Maarten van Smeden, a medical statistician at the University Medical Center Utrecht. \u201cYou have to take this with a little grain of salt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To assess COVID-19\u2019s impact, Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis and the VA Saint Louis Health Care System, and colleagues analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In previous studies of this data set, the same researchers identified an elevated risk of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/covid-19-takes-serious-toll-heart-health-full-year-after-recovery\">heart attack<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/covid-19-patients-face-higher-risk-brain-fog-and-depression-even-1-year-after-infection\">mental health disorders<\/a>&nbsp;up to a year after infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, the team looked at 80 health problems\u2014from fatigue and other symptoms commonly associated with Long Covid to neurodegenerative disease\u2014and general risk of death or hospitalization up to 2 years postinfection. They included data from about 140,000 people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 and 6 million people with no record of infection that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/covid-19-boosts-risks-health-problems-2-years-later-giant-study-veterans-says\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science SARS-CoV-2\u2019s public health impact is worse than that of heart disease or cancer, study claims; others say the work may overestimate harm for the general population Three-and-a-half years since SARS-CoV-2 spread around the world, scientists are still documenting the virus\u2019 myriad effects on human health. What\u2019s clear already is that those effects can continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}