Nearly a third of patients recovering from COVID-19 were readmitted to the hospital within five months and one in eight died, according to a report from the University of Leicester and the National Statistics Office. of the United Kingdom. they were discharged from the hospital during the first wave of COVID-19, 29.4% returned to the hospital and 12.3% died from COVID-19-related problems.
According to the Daily Mail, many survivors of COVID-19 continue to develop serious health problems, such as heart problems, diabetes, and chronic kidney and liver disease. The study’s author, Kamlesh Khunti, a professor of primary care diabetes and vascular medicine at the University of Leicester, said this was the largest study of its kind to date that tracked the recovered COVID-19 patients.
“It looks like people are going home, it has long-term effects, it’s dying again. We see that 30% have been readmitted, and that’s a lot of people. The numbers are so big,” he said, according to the Daily Mail.
The study found that survivors of the disease were nearly three and a half times more likely to be readmitted and die within 140 days than other outpatients, according to the New York Post. Khunti said patients had been readmitted with a new diagnosis, such as diabetes or liver disease, and said it was important for COVID-19 survivors to receive protective therapies such as statins and aspirin.
“We don’t know if it’s because COVID-19 destroyed insulin-producing beta cells and you have type 1 diabetes or if it causes insulin resistance and you develop type 2, but we’re seeing these amazing new diagnoses of diabetes.” , He said, according to the Post.
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