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Fatigue, sleepiness and sleep quality are SARS-CoV-2 variant independent in patients with long COVID symptoms by Anna Reka Percze; Alexandra Nagy; Lorinc Polivka; Eniko Barczi; Ibolya Czaller; Zsuzsanna Kovats; Janos Tamas Varga; Judit H. Ballai; Veronika Muller; Gabor Horvath is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Acute infections with SARS-CoV-2 variants of concerns (VOCs) differ in clinical presentation. Discrepancies in their long-term sequelae, commonly referred to as long COVID, however, remain to be explored. We retrospectively analyzed data of 287 patients presented at the post-COVID care of the Pulmonology Department, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, and infected with SARS-CoV-2 during a period of 3 major epidemic waves in Hungary (February–July 2021, VOC: B.1.1.7, Alpha, N = 135; August–December 2021, VOC: B.1.617.2, Delta, N = 89; and January–June 2022, VOC: B.1.1.529, Omicron; N = 63), > 4 weeks after acute COVID-19. Overall, the ratio of long COVID symptomatic (LC) and asymptomatic (NS) patients was 2:1. Self-reported questionnaires on fatigue (Fatigue Severity Scale, FSS), sleepiness (Epworth Sleepiness Scale, ESS) and sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) showed higher scores for LC (4.79 ± 0.12, 7.45 ± 0.33 and 7.46 ± 0.27, respectively) than NS patients (2.85 ± 0.16, 5.23 ± 0.32 and 4.26 ± 0.29, respectively; p 5 cutoff values, LC patients commonly exhibited problematic fatigue (≥ 70%) and poor sleep quality (> 60%) in all three waves. Comparative an

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Author

Anna Reka Percze; Alexandra Nagy; Lorinc Polivka; Eniko Barczi; Ibolya Czaller; Zsuzsanna Kovats; Janos Tamas Varga; Judit H. Ballai; Veronika Muller; Gabor Horvath

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Life Sciences)