Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in community-living older adults from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Lauren E. Griffith; Marla Beauchamp; Jacqueline McMillan; Sayem Borhan; Urun Erbas Oz; Christina Wolfson; Susan Kirkland; Nicole E. Basta; Mary Thompson; Parminder Raina; on behalf of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team

doi:10.1038/s43856-023-00266-0

Communications Medicine (Mar 2023)

Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in community-living older adults from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Lauren E. Griffith,
Marla Beauchamp,
Jacqueline McMillan,
Sayem Borhan,
Urun Erbas Oz,
Christina Wolfson,
Susan Kirkland,
Nicole E. Basta,
Mary Thompson,
Parminder Raina,
on behalf of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team

Affiliations

Lauren E. Griffith: Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University
Marla Beauchamp: Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging, McMaster University
Jacqueline McMillan: Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Sayem Borhan: Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University
Urun Erbas Oz: Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University
Christina Wolfson: Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
Susan Kirkland: Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
Nicole E. Basta: Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
Mary Thompson: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Parminder Raina: Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University
on behalf of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Team

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00266-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Griffith et al. report COVID-19 symptom persistence in a national population-based cohort over 50 years old in Canada. These data allow the authors to estimate the background symptom prevalence in the cohort, given not everyone had COVID-19, but also to explore a broader range of pre-pandemic risk factors for post-acute COVID-19 symptom persistence.

Published in Communications Medicine

ISSN: 2730-664X (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsmed/

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