Muscle pain, fatigue, breathlessness, short-term memory loss and slowed thinking were among the most common reported symptoms.
Chris Brightling, a professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Leicester and the chief investigator for the PHOSP-COVID study, said:"While the profile of patients being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 is disproportionately male and from an ethnic minority background, our study finds that those who have the most severe prolonged symptoms tend to be white women aged approximately 40 to 60 who have at least two long-term health conditions, such as asthma or diabetes.
Patients in the group which predominantly experienced"brain fog", or impaired cognitive function, tended to be older and male. But the research has uncovered a potential biological factor behind some of the long term effects of COVID. "We also know that autoimmunity, where the body has an immune response to its own healthy cells and organs, is more common in middle-aged women."This may explain why post-COVID syndrome seems to be more prevalent in this group, but further investigation is needed to fully understand the processes."
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