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Open Access 01-12-2023 | Long-COVID Syndrome | Correspondence

A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies

Authors: Grant M. A. Wyper, Scott A. McDonald, Juanita A. Haagsma, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Periklis Charalampous, Rishma Maini, Pierre Smith, Sara M. Pires

Published in: Archives of Public Health | Issue 1/2023

Abstract

Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not included in estimates of the burden of long COVID which will result in underestimation. A more comprehensive approach to modelling the disease burden from long COVID, in relation to fatigue, can ensure that we do not only focus on what is easiest to measure; which risks losing focus of less severe health states that may be more difficult to measure but are occurring very frequently. Our proposed approach provides a means to better understand the scale of challenge from long COVID, for consideration when preventative and mitigative action is being planned.

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Title: A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
Authors: Grant M. A. Wyper
Scott A. McDonald
Juanita A. Haagsma
Brecht Devleesschauwer
Periklis Charalampous
Rishma Maini
Pierre Smith
Sara M. Pires
Publication date: 01-12-2023
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keywords: Long-COVID Syndrome
Fatigue
Post-COVID Syndrome
Published in: Archives of Public Health / Issue 1/2023
Electronic ISSN: 2049-3258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-023-01212-1

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