... the study found that individuals with a favorable lifestyle had a lower risk of hospitalization, lower incidence of long-term or on-going health issues affecting multiple parts of the body, and reduced risk of post-COVID death, compared to those with an unfavorable lifestyle.
Just as coronavirus transmission fluctuated in waves, so too have our responses to it. The world is four years from the acute phase of the pandemic, but not without lasting impact—including those who have maintained debilitating symptoms from COVID, adding to a large population of people with disabilities.
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The largest study conducted by the CDC to capture the scope of disability in the U.S. and representing 245 million people, the authors found that nearly half of those over 65 reported being disabled, and that long COVID symptoms were present in 11% of those who reported disabilities, versus 7% of those without disabilities.
The researchers assessed the association of modifiable lifestyle factors (eg, smoking, alcohol use, body mass index, physical activity, time spent in sedentary activities, sleep duration, diet) with long COVID, death, and hospitalization among 68,896 adults in the UK Biobank cohort who tested positive for COVID-19 from March 2020 to March 2022.
...the likelihood of developing long Covid has dropped since the start of the pandemic but remains substantial, especially for people who aren’t vaccinated against the coronavirus.
...researchers found that the lowest rates of long COVID (3.5%) were in people who were vaccinated against COVID-19. Of the people who were unvaccinated, 7.8% developed long COVID.
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who required intensive care unit (ICU) treatment were more likely to acquire infections than those hospitalized with influenza, according to a new study in Scientific Reports.
The rapid test is the latest scientific advancement against bird flu and comes from Alveo Technologies Inc. (California), a leader in molecular sensing and diagnostics with a proprietary technology platform.
