Cancer patients are more at risk of contracting Covid in the long term

According to Health Day News, the results of a new study showed that more than half of cancer patients suffer from long-term covid and women are more at risk. "Although cancer patients are at high risk for covid-19, there is limited information about cancer patients and how covid affects their progression, care, and treatment," said lead author Dr. Anne Marie Chafferty from the University of Texas at Austin. "In order to better understand post-Covid-19 management among cancer patients, we sought to characterize this long-term pattern of covid-1." The researchers noted that their findings were comparable to long-term reported cases of Covid in the general population. Reports of long-term covid prevalence vary from 10% to 87%. For the study, researchers followed patients at the cancer center who were diagnosed with Covid between March and September 2020. Limitations in daily activities... Symptoms that persisted for more than 30 days after initial severe symptoms or hospitalization indicated that patients with Covid-1920 had long-term cancer. Patients with long-term Covid often reported fatigue, sleep disturbances, muscle pain and gastrointestinal symptoms. Researchers noted that people with high blood pressure were less likely to develop long-term covid. Long-term covid in immunocompromised patients. The authors say the link between high blood pressure and an increased risk of contracting Covid-19 is due to the binding of the spike protein of the coronavirus to an enzyme that is the target of many anti-hypertensive drugs. According to the researchers, "Our study showed that long-term covid-19 occurs in most cancer patients and is more common in women than men."