Pancreatic disease, liver disease, digestive ulcer, gallbladder disease, 6 months… gastrointestinal dysfunction and gastroesophageal reflux disease, risk for more than 1 year
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A new study found that if you get COVID-19, your risk of digestive disease continues for a year afterward. [사진=게티이미지뱅크]A new study has shown that if you get COVID-19, your risk of digestive disease continues up to a year later. This is what was reported on the 12th (local time) by the health and medicine webzine ‘Health Day’, based on an article by British researchers published in BMC Medicine.
The risk of digestive ulcers, liver disease, gallbladder disease, and pancreatic disease was elevated up to 6 months after COVID-19 infection. The risk of gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) has been found to last at least a year. People with COVID-19 were more than twice as likely to develop pancreatic disease as people who had never had COVID-19.
Researchers have found that about 10% of people report digestive symptoms while symptoms of COVID-19 infection are evident. Furthermore, the proportion of patients with long-term COVID-19 (long COVID), in which COVID-19 symptoms persist for several months, reaches 14%. This latest study sought to understand how often people are diagnosed with digestive diseases more than a month after being infected.
Researchers looked at the likelihood of developing eight digestive diseases among 112,000 UK residents who had been infected with COVID-19 for more than 30 days. The period was set from the beginning of 2020, when the pandemic began, to October 2022.
The researchers compared the rate of digestive disease after COVID-19 infection with the rate of digestive disease among more than 350,000 people who did not contract COVID-19 during that period. In another comparison group we also checked the rates of digestive diseases before the pandemic and compared them.
Accordingly, the increased risk after COVID-19 infection was 41% for GERD, 38% for gastrointestinal dysfunction, 36% for pancreatic disease, 35% for severe liver disease, 23% for digestive ulcers, and 21 % for gallbladder disease. The researchers added that it is not yet clear how COVID-19 leads to digestive system diseases.
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