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What?
The long COVID Outcome research theme will examine and understand short term and long term physical health, mental health and social outcomes of COVID infection and the subsequent long COVID period.
Why?
COVID has profound direct and indirect effects on society and human health. This work package will aim to understand these effects on human physical and mental health and the way patients interact with the healthcare system with the aim of designing interventions targeting populations most at need. Conversely, we use diverse data sources in order to identify and characterize factors influencing the recovery from long COVID .
How?
This will be achieved by harnessing the breadth of national electronic health record data sources linked across care settings and the phenotypic depth of cohort studies.
Findings
Association of COVID-19 with arterial and venous vascular diseases: a population-wide cohort study of 48 million adults in England and Wales https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.22.21266512v1
Rates of serious clinical outcomes in survivors of hospitalisation with COVID-19: a descriptive cohort study within the OpenSAFELY platform https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.21250304v3