Study confirms duration of blood clotting risk after COVID-19 infection
Researchers from the University of Umea, Sweden have found that the risk of severe blood clotting is extremely high for up to six months after recovering from a severe COVID-19 infection.
These are the conclusions of a study recently published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), one of the oldest general medicine weekly in the world.
During the study, Umea researchers analyzed and compared the electronic health records of more than one million Swedish citizens who tested positive for coronavirus between February 2020 and May 2021 with 4 million Swedish citizens who had never contracted the virus infection.
The researchers found that people two months after recovering from severe COVID-19 infection, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or blood clots in the legs within three months remained at increased risk of stroke-related internal bleeding and pulmonary embolism or blood were exposed to clots. in the lungs in six months.
Commenting on the study, Anne-Marie Fors Connolly, the study’s principal investigator, said these results are good enough to motivate unvaccinated people to get vaccinated.
He added that the risk of blood clotting after being vaccinated against COVID-19 is much lower than it is a few months after recovering from coronavirus.
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