Comparison of post-COVID-19 symptoms in patients infected with the SARS-CoV- 2 variants delta and omicron - results of the Cross-Sectoral Platform of the German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON-SUEP)

Abstract <jats:underline>Purpose</jats:underline> The influence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants on the post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) remains unanswered. Therefore, we examined the prevalence and predictors of PCC-related symptoms in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 variants delta or omicron. <jats:underline>Methods</jats:underline> We compared prevalences and risk factors of acute and PCC-related symptoms three months after primary infection (3MFU) between delta- and omicron-infected patients from the Cross-Sectoral Platform of the German National Pandemic Cohort Network. Health-related quality of life (HrQoL) was determined by the EQ-5D-5L index score and trend groups were calculated to describe changes of HrQoL between different time points. <jats:underline>Results</jats:underline> We considered 758 patients for our analysis (delta: n = 341; omicron: n = 417). Compared with omicron patients, delta patients had a similar prevalence of PCC at the 3MFU (p = 0.354), whereby fatigue occurred most frequently (n = 256, 34%). HrQoL was comparable between the groups with the lowest EQ-5D-5L index score (0.75, 95%-CI 0.73-0.78) at disease onset. While most patients (69%, n = 348) never showed a declined HrQoL, it deteriorated substantially in 37 patients (7%) from the acute phase to the 3MFU of which 27 were infected with omicron. <jats:underline>Conclusion</jats:underline> With quality-controlled data from a multicenter cohort, we showed that PCC is an equally common challenge for patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 variants delta and omicron at least for the German population. Developing the EQ-5D-5L index score trend groups showed that over two thirds of patients did not experience any restrictions in their HrQoL due to or after the SARS-CoV-2 infection at the 3MFU. The cohort is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov since February 24, 2021 (Identifier: NCT04768998)..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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ResearchSquare.com - (2024) vom: 10. Jan. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Englisch

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Hopff, Sina M. [VerfasserIn]
Appel, Katharina S. [VerfasserIn]
Miljukov, Olga [VerfasserIn]
Schneider, Johannes [VerfasserIn]
Addo, Marylyn M. [VerfasserIn]
Bals, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Bercker, Sven [VerfasserIn]
Blaschke, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
Bröhl, Isabel [VerfasserIn]
Büchner, Nikolaus [VerfasserIn]
Dashti, Hiwa [VerfasserIn]
Erber, Johanna [VerfasserIn]
Friedrichs, Anette [VerfasserIn]
Geisler, Ramsia [VerfasserIn]
Göpel, Siri [VerfasserIn]
Hagen, Marina [VerfasserIn]
Hanses, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Jensen, Björn-Erik Ole [VerfasserIn]
Keul, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Krawczyk, Adalbert [VerfasserIn]
Lorenz-Depiereux, Bettina [VerfasserIn]
Meybohm, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Milovanovic, Milena [VerfasserIn]
Mitrov, Lazar [VerfasserIn]
Nürnberger, Carolin [VerfasserIn]
Obst, Wilfried [VerfasserIn]
Römmele, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Schäfer, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Scheer, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Scherer, Margarete [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Seibel, Kristina [VerfasserIn]
Sikdar, Shimita [VerfasserIn]
Tebbe, Johannes Josef [VerfasserIn]
Tepasse, Phil-Robin [VerfasserIn]
Thelen, Philipp [VerfasserIn]
Vehreschild, Maria J.G.T. [VerfasserIn]
Weismantel, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Vehreschild, J. Janne [VerfasserIn]

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doi:

10.21203/rs.3.rs-3845618/v1

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XRA042130379