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Post-COVID-19 condition is not only a question of persistent symptoms: structured screening including health-related quality of life reveals two separate clusters of post-COVID.

Benjamin GiszasSabine TrommerNane SchüßlerAndrea RodewaldBianca BesteherJutta BleidornPetra DickmannKathrin FinkeKatrin Claudia KatzerKatja Lehmann-PohlChristina LemhöferMathias W PletzChristian PutaStefanie QuickertMartin WalterAndreas StallmachPhilipp Alexander Reuken
Published in: Infection (2022)
Despite persistent symptoms being reported by nearly three quarters of participants, only one-third of these described a significant reduction in QoL (cluster 1), whereas the other two-thirds reported a near-normal QoL (cluster 2), thus indicating a differentiation between "post-COVID disease" and "post-COVID condition". The prevalence of clinically relevant post-COVID disease was at least 20.7%. Health policies should focus on this subset.
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