학술논문
Estimates of Incidence and Predictors of Fatiguing Illness after SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
Document Type
Article
Author
Source
Subject
*FATIGUE (Physiology)
*COVID-19
*COVID-19 pandemic
*SARS-CoV-2
*ELECTRONIC health records
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Language
ISSN
1080-6040
Abstract
This study aimed to estimate the incidence rates of post--COVID-19 fatigue and chronic fatigue and to quantify the additional incident fatigue caused by COVID-19. We analyzed electronic health records data of 4,589 patients with confirmed COVID-19 during February 2020-February 2021 who were followed for a median of 11.4 (interquartile range 7.8-15.5) months and compared them to data from 9,022 propensity score--matched non--COVID-19 controls. Among COVID-19 patients (15% hospitalized for acute COVID-19), the incidence rate of fatigue was 10.2/100 personyears and the rate of chronic fatigue was 1.8/100 person-years. Compared with non--COVID-19 controls, the hazard ratios were 1.68 (95% CI 1.48-1.92) for fatigue and 4.32 (95% CI 2.90-6.43) for chronic fatigue. The observed association between COVID-19 and the significant increase in the incidence of fatigue and chronic fatigue reinforces the need for public health actions to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]