Covid-19: Middle aged women face greater risk of debilitating long term symptoms

Covid-19: Middle aged women face greater risk of debilitating long term symptoms Ingrid TorjesenMiddle aged women have a higher risk of experiencing a range of debilitating ongoing symptoms, such as fatigue, breathlessness, muscle pain, anxiety, depression, and "brain fog" after hospital treatment for covid-19, suggest the findings of two unpublished studies available as preprints.Seven in 10 patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 reported "long covid" symptoms an average of five months after discharge in the larger PHOSP-COVID study, and symptoms were more prevalent in women aged 40-60. 1 White ethnicity, two or more comorbidities at admission, and receiving invasive ventilation while in hospital increased the risk, but severity of acute covid-19 disease did not seem to affect the likelihood of experiencing long covid symptoms.