Developing a Long COVID Phenotype for Postacute COVID-19 in a National Primary Care Sentinel Cohort: Observational Retrospective Database Analysis

• Main Authors: Nikhil Mayor (Author), Bernardo Meza-Torres (Author), Cecilia Okusi (Author), Gayathri Delanerolle (Author), Martin Chapman (Author), Wenjuan Wang (Author), Sneha Anand (Author), Michael Feher (Author), Jack Macartney (Author), Rachel Byford (Author), Mark Joy (Author), Piers Gatenby (Author), Vasa Curcin (Author), Trisha Greenhalgh (Author), Brendan Delaney (Author), Simon de Lusignan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundFollowing COVID-19, up to 40% of people have ongoing health problems, referred to as postacute COVID-19 or long COVID (LC). LC varies from a single persisting symptom to a complex multisystem disease. Research has flagged that this condition is underrecorded in primary care records, and se...