{"id":570,"date":"2023-08-21T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=570"},"modified":"2023-09-14T23:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T03:18:49","slug":"long-covid-symptoms-create-a-greater-burden-of-disability-than-heart-disease-or-cancer-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-symptoms-create-a-greater-burden-of-disability-than-heart-disease-or-cancer-new-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Covid symptoms create a greater burden of disability than heart disease or cancer, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who survived Covid-19 early in the pandemic, before there were vaccines, continued to be at higher risk for a slew of health problems for up to two years after they got over their initial infections, compared to others who didn\u2019t test positive, a new study finds, and that was especially true if they were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>These health problems include heart problems, blood clots, diabetes, neurologic complications, fatigue and difficulties with mental health and have come to be known collectively as long Covid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Bowe, B., Xie, Y. &amp; Al-Aly, Z. Postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2&nbsp;years. <i>Nat Med<\/i> (2023). DOI&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-023-02521-2\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1038\/s41591-023-02521-2<\/a><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-023-02521-2\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-023-02521-2<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who survived Covid-19 early in the pandemic, before there were vaccines, continued to be at higher risk for a slew of health problems for up to two years after they got over their initial infections, compared to others who didn\u2019t test positive, a new study finds, and that was especially true if they were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>These health problems include heart problems, blood clots, diabetes, neurologic complications, fatigue and difficulties with mental health and have come to be known collectively as long Covid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-symptoms-create-a-greater-burden-of-disability-than-heart-disease-or-cancer-new-study-shows\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Covid symptoms create a greater burden of disability than heart disease or cancer, new 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":[191,37,72,190,46,18,39,30,36,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blood-clots","tag-brain-damage","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-cognitive-impairment","tag-cognitive-issues","tag-covid-19","tag-diabetes","tag-fatigue","tag-heart-disease","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}