{"id":671,"date":"2022-10-04T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=671"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:15","slug":"older-patients-more-likely-to-report-long-covid-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/04\/older-patients-more-likely-to-report-long-covid-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Older patients more likely to report long-COVID symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2022\/10\/older-patients-more-likely-report-long-covid-symptoms\" target=\"_blank\">CIDRAP<\/a> &#8211; Among patients seen at long-COVID clinics in four countries, older people were the most likely to report symptoms and have abnormal chest imaging and lung function tests, finds a\u00a0study\u00a0published late last week in the\u00a0<em>International Journal of Infectious Diseases<\/em>. Researchers in Israel, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland followed 2,333 COVID-19 survivors for an average of 5 months to compare symptoms between patients ages 18 to 65 years and those 66 years and older and identify risk factors for persistent fatigue and shortness of breath. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2022\/10\/older-patients-more-likely-report-long-covid-symptoms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Continue reading in CIDRAP<\/a><\/em>  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ijidonline.com\/article\/S1201-9712(22)00535-5\/fulltext#%20\" target=\"_blank\">Related Study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIDRAP &#8211; Among patients seen at long-COVID clinics in four countries, older people were the most likely to report symptoms and have abnormal chest imaging and lung function tests, finds a\u00a0study\u00a0published late last week in the\u00a0International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Researchers in Israel, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland followed 2,333 COVID-19 survivors for an average of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations","category-long-covid"],"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\/671","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}