Long COVID: long-term health outcomes and implications for policy and research

Ziyad Al-Aly; Anupam Agarwal; Nisreen Alwan; Valerie A Luyckx

doi:10.1038/s41581-022-00652-2

Long COVID: long-term health outcomes and implications for policy and research

Nat Rev Nephrol. 2023 Jan;19(1):1-2. doi: 10.1038/s41581-022-00652-2.

Authors

Ziyad Al-Aly^{1

2}, Anupam Agarwal³, Nisreen Alwan^{4

5

6}, Valerie A Luyckx^{7

8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Center, Research and Development Service, VA Saint Louis Health Care System, Saint Louis, MO, USA. zalaly@gmail.com.
² Institute for Public Health, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA. zalaly@gmail.com.
³ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA.
⁴ School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁵ NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex, Southampton, UK.
⁶ NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
⁷ Division of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁸ Department of Nephrology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁹ Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Abstract

Long COVID, which refers to post-acute and chronic sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, can affect nearly every organ system and all demographic groups. The high and growing toll of long COVID calls for an urgent need to understand how to prevent and treat it. Governments and health systems must address the care needs of people with long COVID.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Long-Term Care
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Policy
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome*
SARS-CoV-2