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Nearly half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 experienced at least one complication, researchers found in a prospective study.
There were 49.7% of patients overall who developed one or more COVID-19 complications, and 43.5% of survivors with a minimum of one complication, reported Ewen M. Harrison, MBChB, PhD, from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and colleagues.
Men and adults older than age 60 were most likely to have a complication from COVID-19, with complications reported in 54% of men and 48% of women older than age 60, authors wrote in
The most frequent COVID-19 complications were renal (24.3%), respiratory (18.4%), and systemic (16.3%). Additional complications were cardiovascular (12.3%), neurological (4.3%), and gastrointestinal (10.8%) complications.