22 studies featured patients who had been hospitalized for COVID-19.
Plaque growth can lead to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other life-threatening cardiovascular events for as long as 1 year.
Post-exertional malaise, or exercise intolerance, was seen in 36% of those with long COVID.
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Nine percent of people who described themselves as permanently sick or disabled had long COVID.
Lower risks for vaccinated participants were also seen when restricting the analyses to the pre-Omicron and Omicron periods, sex, age, or previous infection.
From 2021 to 2023, 23% of participants developed long-COVID symptoms, with 56% of those infected in 2021 reporting symptoms for 2 years.
If the pandemic hadn't occurred, over half of the person-years of life lost would likely have been lived without disability, the authors say.
Face-down positioning improved survival without intubation, cut the odds of intubation and in-hospital death, and lengthened the time from enrollment to intubation.
The costs of respiratory testing increased over time, from a low of $21 million in 2016 to a high of $111 million in 2022.
These men had higher rates of shortness of breath and fatigue than those without erectile dysfunction and had higher depression/anxiety and pain/discomfort scores than before infection.
The findings show that air pollutants interact with host genetic susceptibility in both multiplicative and additive manners, the authors say.
The vaccine was 45% to 46% protective against hospitalization for older adults.
Paxlovid recipients were at significantly lower risk for all-cause hospitalization than those given molnupiravir.
