Covid19-Sources

The US Department of Veteran Affairs health record data sets were used in a series of papers on altered risk conferred by COVID-19 on a wide range of disease outcomes, often viewed as HR deduced from 1-year disease burden data100,130,131,132,133. This finds an increased risk of dyslipidaemia across abnormal lipid outcomes, with a HR of 1.24 (ref. 131). Analysis of cardiovascular outcomes found a HR of 1.52 for risk of stroke, 2.93 for pulmonary embolism, 5.38 for myocarditis and 1.49 for transient ischaemic attacks130. For all diabetes across this data set, the HR was 1.4 (ref. 133).

The most common post COVID-19 symptoms were altered smell and taste (68.8%), dyspnea (33.7%) and fatigue (30.4%). Overall, no major risk factors for post COVID-19 were identified except for being bedbound during COVID-19. However, asthma and rhinitis were associated with the post COVID-19 symptom dyspnea, migraine with altered smell and taste, and lower self-rated health with fatigue. In conclusion, post COVID-19 symptoms are common, also among young adults in the general population. Although not life-threatening, it could have a considerable impact on public health due to the high prevalence and long-term symptoms.