The COVID pandemic began more than two years ago and those who have ever contracted the disease are still suffering from some consequences. According to an analysis by a group of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic (USA), nearly 40% of those with persistent COVID have sleep-related problems.
To carry out the study, the team collected data from 962 patients with persistent COVID between February 2021 and April 2022. The results showed that patients with more aggressive sleep disorders also had higher body mass indexes and greater anxiety problems.
On the other hand, black patients with persistent COVID were shown to be three times more likely to experience moderate to severe sleep disturbance. Regarding the aggressiveness of the disorder, 62.7% of the patients reported moderate fatigue, and 21.8% severe fatigue. So far researchers have not found the reason why this happens.
“Some of them are improving their sleep problems”
“Sleep disorders are one of the most common symptoms that patients suffering from post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection are experiencing these days. They mainly complain of insomnia, fatigue, also mental confusion, and some of them have circadian rhythm disordersexplains Cinthya Pena, MD, a sleep specialist at the Cleveland Clinic.
In any case, it is not something irreversible and the researchers assure that some patients have already recovered. “This is just from my personal experience that those patients that we were seeing a year ago in our clinic, some of them that are already after ten or twelve months of treatment, I can see that some of them are improving their sleep problems”, points Pena.
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