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[현대건강신문] Research results have shown that COVID-19 not only worsens the disease of asthma patients, but also increases mortality. Specifically, the results showed that patients recovering from severe COVID-19 had a more than 5-fold increase in the likelihood of worsening to severe asthma and a 7-fold increase in the likelihood of death compared to patients recovering from COVID-19. mild.
The research team of Professors Sang-heon Kim, Hyun Lee and Bo-geun Kim from the Department of Respiratory Allergy at Hanyang University Hospital published a study in the March online edition of the renowned international journal “Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ” titled “The long-term impact of COVID-19 on severe exacerbation and mortality in adult asthma: national population-based. This was revealed in a cohort research paper.
In this paper, Professor Kim’s team studied the risk of adult asthma patients who recovered from COVID-19 infection worsening to severe asthma or dying.
The research team used big data from the National Health Insurance Corporation to match 10,739 adult asthma patients aged 20 and older who recovered from COVID-19 from October to December 2020 with a group of non-COVID-19 control patients. -COVID-19 in a 1:1 way.
As a result of the study, among adult asthma patients, the number of patients who worsened to severe asthma after recovering from COVID-19 was 187.3 cases per 10,000, which is 1.57 times higher than the 119.3 cases in control group was 128.3 per 10,000 in the group of patients recovered from COVID-19, compared to 73.5 cases per 10,000 in the control group. This figure is 1.76 times higher than that.
Furthermore, among adult asthmatic patients, the risk of severe worsening was confirmed to be 5.12 times higher and the risk of death 7.31 times higher in the group of patients classified as severe from COVID-19 and recovered compared to the group of patients healed. from mild COVID-19.
Professor Kim Sang-heon said: “According to recent studies, patients with respiratory comorbidities, including asthma, have been found to have a high risk of complications and worsening of existing diseases after recovery from COVID-19.” the mortality rate was high,” he said.
In particular, he said: “It has been confirmed that patients recovering from severe COVID-19 require careful and thorough follow-up,” and added: “I hope that doctors who treat asthma will also make great efforts to prevent asthmatic patients who are not. infected with Covid-19”.
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