Symptoms, complications and management of long COVID: a review

Globally, there are now over 160 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 3 million deaths. These individuals may require multidisciplinary care involving the long-term monitoring of symptoms, to identify potential complications, physical rehabilitation, mental health and social services support.

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• 1 While the majority of infected individuals recover, a significant proportion continue to experience symptoms and complications after their acute illness.
• 2 Patients with 'long COVID' experience a wide range of physical and mental/psychological symptoms.
• 3 Pooled prevalence data showed the 10 most prevalent reported symptoms were fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle pain, joint pain, headache, cough, chest pain, altered smell, altered taste and diarrhoea.

Understanding this could lead to better treatments, improved diagnostics, or a deeper grasp of how the human body works — benefiting patient care globally.

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