Almost half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 early in the pandemic had at least one lingering symptom a year after symptom onset, researchers in Wuhan, China found.
A total of 49% of patients had at least one post-COVID symptom 1 year later, which included sleep difficulties, palpitations, joint pain, or chest pain, though that was down significantly from 68% of survivors at 6 months after symptom onset (P<0.0001), reported Bin Cao, MD, of China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, and colleagues.
Notably, more patients reported anxiety or depression at their 12-month visit than at their 6-month visit (26% vs 23%, respectively, P=0.015) and dyspnea (30% vs 26%, P=0.014), the authors wrote in The Lancet.
The most common symptom was fatigue or muscle weakness, though the authors noted there was a significant decline at the 12-month visit versus the 6-month visit (20% vs 52%, respectively, P<0.0001).
Co-author Xiaoying Gu, MD, also of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said the authors did not yet understand why psychiatric symptoms were more pervasive at 1 year compared with 6 months.
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