{"id":1413,"date":"2023-09-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2023-09-13T02:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T06:21:23","slug":"1-in-4-covid-survivors-had-impaired-lung-function-1-year-on-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/1-in-4-covid-survivors-had-impaired-lung-function-1-year-on-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 4 COVID survivors had impaired lung function 1\u00a0year on, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter of COVID-19 survivors had impaired lung function 1&nbsp;year after infection, and older patients, those with more than three chronic conditions, and those with severe cases improved slower than other patients over time, a Dutch <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0290893\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> published yesterday in <i>PLOS One<\/i> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by University of Amsterdam researchers evaluated diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO), spirometry results, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in 301&nbsp;COVID-19 survivors who underwent at least one lung-function test from May 2020 to December 2021. Median patient age was 51&nbsp;years, and 56% were men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\" lang=\"en\">van Willigen HDG, Wynberg E, Verveen A, Dijkstra M, Verkaik BJ, Figaroa OJA, et al. (2023) One-fourth of COVID-19 patients have an impaired pulmonary function after 12&nbsp;months of disease onset. PLoS ONE 18(9): e0290893. DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0290893\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1371\/journal.pone.0290893<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter of COVID-19 survivors had impaired lung function 1&nbsp;year after infection, and older patients, those with more than three chronic conditions, and those with severe cases improved slower than other patients over time, a Dutch study published yesterday in <i>PLOS One<\/i> reveals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/1-in-4-covid-survivors-had-impaired-lung-function-1-year-on-study-shows\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 in 4 COVID survivors had impaired lung function 1\u00a0year on, study shows<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,212,340,339,338,8,14,337],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-lung-disease","tag-lungs","tag-pulmonary-fibrosis","tag-pulmonary-function","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-university-of-amsterdam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}