Pérez González, AlexandreAraújo Ameijeiras, AlejandroFernández Villar, AlbertoCrespo, ManuelPoveda, EvaCabrera, Jorge JulioCampo, Víctor delGil de Araujo, BeatrizGómez, CarlosLeiro, VirginiaLongueira, María RebecaLópez Domínguez, AnaRamón Lorenzo, JoséMarcos, MaríaPérez, María TeresaPatiño, LuciaPérez, SoniaPérez Fernández, SilviaRamos, CristinaRegueiro, BenitoRetresas, CristinaRivera, TaniaSouto, OlgaTaboada, IsabelTeijeira, SusanaTorres, MaríaVal, VanesaViéitez, IreneCohort Covid-19 Of The Galicia Sur Health Research Institute2022-03-282022-03-282022-03-012045-2322https://hdl.handle.net/2445/184457Survivors to COVID-19 have described long-term symptoms after acute disease. These signs constitute a heterogeneous group named long COVID or persistent COVID. The aim of this study is to describe persisting symptoms 6 months after COVID-19 diagnosis in a prospective cohort in the Northwest Spain. This is a prospective cohort study performed in the COHVID-GS. This cohort includes patients in clinical follow-up in a health area of 569,534 inhabitants after SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 diagnosis. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics were collected during the follow up. A total of 248 patients completed 6 months follow-up, 176 (69.4%) required hospitalization and 29 (10.2%) of them needed critical care. At 6 months, 119 (48.0%) patients described one or more persisting symptoms. The most prevalent were: extra-thoracic symptoms (39.1%), chest symptoms (27%), dyspnoea (20.6%), and fatigue (16.1%). These symptoms were more common in hospitalized patients (52.3% vs. 38.2%) and in women (59.0% vs. 40.5%). The multivariate analysis identified COPD, women gender and tobacco consumption as risk factors for long COVID. Persisting symptoms are common after COVID-19 especially in hospitalized patients compared to outpatients (52.3% vs. 38.2%). Based on these findings, special attention and clinical follow-up after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection should be provided for hospitalized patients with previous lung diseases, tobacco consumption, and women.8 p.application/pdfengcc by (c) Pérez González, Alexandre et al, 2022http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/COVID-19Malalts crònicsCOVID-19Chronically illinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article2022-03-25info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess35233035