Four in 10 people with long COVID had moderate to severe sleep problems, and Black people with the condition were much more likely to have serious sleep issues, a new study found.
Four in 10 people with long COVID had moderate to severe sleep problems, and Black people with the condition were much more likely to have serious sleep issues, a new study found. It included 962 adults at the Cleveland Clinic who were treated for long COVID – what the researchers defined as having lingering and debilitating symptoms from the virus lasting more than 4 weeks – at the Cleveland Clinic between February 2021 and April 2022. Among them:59% reported normal to mild sleep disturbances.
Other things linked to a higher likelihood of sleep disturbances among people with long COVID were whether someone had been hospitalized for COVID, had severe anxiety, or had moderate to severe fatigue. "Our findings not only emphasize the importance of identification of sleep disturbance in long COVID, considering its impact on patients' quality of life, daytime functioning and medical health status, but they also draw the attention to the persistent inequities seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic," researcher Cinthya Pena Orbea, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic's Sleep Disorders Center, said in...
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