“These findings will inform programs designed to help adults recover from severe cases of COVID and guide how physicians should check in with patients in the year following hospitalization,” said James P. Kiley, Ph.D., the director of NHLBI’s Division of Lung Diseases. “They may also help shape future clinical research studies.”
For a bigger picture, other studies, such as the Household Pulse Survey, have suggested that half of U.S. adults(link is external) have reported having COVID. International data(link is external) suggest that about 1 in 13 adults, 6-7%, who have had symptomatic COVID infections still experienced symptoms months later. Based on research published in JAMA(link is external), symptoms lasted for about four months for those who recovered outside of the hospital compared to nine months for those who received hospital care.
To learn more about BLUE CORAL, visit https://petalnet.org/studies/public/bluecoral(link is external).
To learn about NIH research activities to prevent and treat long COVID, visit Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery(link is external) (RECOVER) or ClinicalTrials.gov.
About the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): NHLBI is the global leader in conducting and supporting research in heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders that advances scientific knowledge, improves public health, and saves lives. For more information, visit https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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