Landmark study finds one in two hospitalised COVID-19 patients develop a complication, NIHR

A large-scale, NIHR-supported observational study published in The Lancet has found that one in two people hospitalised with COVID-19 during the first phase of the pandemic developed at least one health complication as a result of the viral infection. The ISARIC/CO-CIN study is the most comprehensive of its kind - and the first to systematically assess a range of in-hospital complications and their associations with age, sex and ethnicity - and their outcomes for the patients. The researchers assessed more than 70,000 hospitalised adult patients in the UK hospitalised with severe COVID-19 disease between January and August 2020. Of these, half (36,367 of 73,197) developed one or more health complication during their hospitalisation. The most common of these included: renal complications (24%, 17,752 participants); complex respiratory problems (18%, 13,486 participants); systemic complications (16%, 11,895 participants); cardiovascular problems (12%, 8,973 participants). But neurological, gastrointestinal and liver complications were also repor ted. Specifically, the most common medical problems experienced by patients were acute kidney injury, probable acute respiratory distress syndrome, liver injury, anaemia, and cardiac arrhythmia.
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