New Study Claims Where You Live Makes You More Susceptible To Long Covid
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The research is based on an analysis of the data of more than 200,000 working-age adults from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK.
When Covid pandemic hit three years ago, it took an unprepared world by surprise, leading to surge in the spread of infection and deaths. As months passed, vaccines were invented to give people protection against coronavirus. But several people, who reported Covid-related severe sickness, complained of injury to internal organs. They also suffered from immune system issues and inflammation. The consequence - long Covid, a phrase for a variety of persistent health issues that a person could experience following a Covid infection. Now, a new research has claimed that the risk of developing long Covid is higher for people who live in poorer areas.
In a paper published in the Royal Society of Medicine, researchers said that the chance of having long Covid is 46 per cent higher for those living in the most deprived areas compared to those living in the least deprived areas.
The research is based on an analysis of the data of more than 200,000 working-age adults from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK to establish a link between long Covid and socioeconomic status across a range of job sectors.
The researchers involved in the study are from universities of Southampton and Oxford. They said in the paper that women had a higher risk of long Covid overall, despite the area they live in. The study said that women in affluent areas are still more likely to develop the condition than men in the most deprived areas.
