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ARCHIVES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13690-023-01212-1
Keywords
Long COVID; Post COVID-19 condition; Disability-adjusted life year; Years lived with disability; Fatigue; Disability weight; European burden of disease network
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Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have often underestimated the scale of the challenge by excluding milder cases. A more comprehensive approach is needed to understand the true impact of long COVID on individuals' health.
Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very frequently, are not included in estimates of the burden of long COVID which will result in underestimation. A more comprehensive approach to modelling the disease burden from long COVID, in relation to fatigue, can ensure that we do not only focus on what is easiest to measure; which risks losing focus of less severe health states that may be more difficult to measure but are occurring very frequently. Our proposed approach provides a means to better understand the scale of challenge from long COVID, for consideration when preventative and mitigative action is being planned.
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