{"id":5289,"date":"2024-04-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:46:25","slug":"severe-covid-leads-to-higher-risk-of-pulmonary-fibrosis-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/severe-covid-leads-to-higher-risk-of-pulmonary-fibrosis-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe COVID leads to higher risk of pulmonary fibrosis: research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Vancouver resident Farrell Eckman, having a long conversation or attending a workout class without breaking into coughs is a major accomplishment. <\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old is one of many people who researchers say developed pulmonary fibrosis \u2014 a condition that thickens the tissue in lungs and can affect breathing \u2014 after experiencing a severe case of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, Eckman was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital because she was having trouble breathing along with flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Vancouver resident Farrell Eckman, having a long conversation or attending a workout class without breaking into coughs is a major accomplishment. <\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old is one of many people who researchers say developed pulmonary fibrosis \u2014 a condition that thickens the tissue in lungs and can affect breathing \u2014 after experiencing a severe case of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, Eckman was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital because she was having trouble breathing along with flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/severe-covid-leads-to-higher-risk-of-pulmonary-fibrosis-research\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Severe COVID leads to higher risk of pulmonary fibrosis: research<\/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":[83,96,18,391,212,339,14,121,1037],"class_list":["post-5289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-lung-disease","tag-pulmonary-fibrosis","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-general-hospital","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289","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=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5290,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}