{"id":4598,"date":"2024-02-14T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2024-02-14T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:31:37","slug":"covid-patients-are-4-3-times-more-likely-to-develop-chronic-fatigue-cdc-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-patients-are-4-3-times-more-likely-to-develop-chronic-fatigue-cdc-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID patients are 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue, CDC report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 patients are at least four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than someone who has not had the virus, a new federal study published Wednesday suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at electronic health records from the University of Washington of more than 4,500 patients with confirmed COVID-19 between February 2020 and February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They were followed for a median of 11.4 months and their health data was compared with the data of more than 9,000 non-COVID-19 patients with similar characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Fatigue developed in 9% of the COVID patients, the team found. Among COVID-19 patients, the rate of new cases of fatigue was 10.2 per 100 person-years and the rate of new cases of chronic fatigue was 1.8 per 100 person-years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 patients are at least four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than someone who has not had the virus, a new federal study published Wednesday suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at electronic health records from the University of Washington of more than 4,500 patients with confirmed COVID-19 between February 2020 and February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They were followed for a median of 11.4 months and their health data was compared with the data of more than 9,000 non-COVID-19 patients with similar characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Fatigue developed in 9% of the COVID patients, the team found. Among COVID-19 patients, the rate of new cases of fatigue was 10.2 per 100 person-years and the rate of new cases of chronic fatigue was 1.8 per 100 person-years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-patients-are-4-3-times-more-likely-to-develop-chronic-fatigue-cdc-report-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID patients are 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue, CDC report finds<\/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":[288,18,273,30,78,11,8,14,896],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-covid-19","tag-extreme-fatigue","tag-fatigue","tag-hospitalizations","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-university-of-washington","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","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=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}