Associations between ethnicity and persistent physical and mental health symptoms experienced as part of ongoing symptomatic COVID-19
In our population, despite having more co-morbidities associated with worse outcomes, adults from Asian, black, mixed and other ethnic backgrounds are not more likely to develop ongoing symptomatic COVID-19. However, it is important that healthcare services remain vigilant in ensuring the provision of timely patient-centred care.
Authors
- Heba M Bintalib
- Sindhu Bhaarrati Naidu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1106-6545)
- George Seligmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1099-4761)
- John Robert Hurst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7246-6040)
- Swapna Mandal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-5880)
- Camila Nagoda Niklewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5377-2677)
- Anita Saigal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4170-8000)
- Marc Lipman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7501-4448)
- Chibueze Ogbonnaya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0547-0648)
- Swati Bhattacharyya
- Sa Xiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8912-5652)
- Amar Jitu Shah
- Karthig Thillaivasan
Institutions
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (SA)
- King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (SA)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2024-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312719
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.64