New symptoms have been added to the list that long covid sufferers have experienced, a study has found.
Researchers from University of Birmingham anonymised electronic health records of 2.4 million people in the UK and discovered that long covid sufferers have experienced a much wider set of over 60 symptoms than previously thought, including sexual dysfunction and alopecia.
The data taken between January 2020 and April 2021 involved more than 480,000 people with prior infection, and 1.9 million people with no indication of coronavirus infection after matching for other clinical diagnoses. Using only non-hospitalised patients, the team of researchers were able to identify three categories of distinct symptoms reported by people with persistent health problems after infection.
