Ethnic differences in Long COVID diagnosed in primary care in England (2020–2022): an observational cohort study using OpenSAFELY
The OpenSAFELY platform is principally funded by grants from: NHS England [2023-2025]; The Wellcome Trust (222097/Z/20/Z) [2020-2024]; MRC (MR/V015737/1) [2020-2021]. Additional contributions to OpenSAFELY and this analysis have been funded by grants from: MRC via the National Core Study programme, Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing strand (MC_PC_20030, MC_PC_20059) [2020-2022] and the Data and Connectivity strand (MC_PC_20058) [2021-2022]; NHS England via the Primary Care Medicines Analytics Unit [2021-2024]; NIHR and MRC via the CONVALESCENCE programme (COV-LT-0009, MC_PC_20051) [2021-2024] and MRC (MR/V040235/1) [2021-24].
Authors
- Angel Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8618-7333)
- Alex v. Lewin
- Santosh Kumar Banjara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0893-9552)
- Alex J Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-6135)
- Alasdair Henderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8903-4906)
- Simon K. Davy
- Nick Birk
- Sam Harper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2767-1053)
- Anoop S.V. Shah
- Helen J. Curtis
- Alex J. Walker
- Seb C J Bacon
- Giridhar R. Babu
- Kevin Wing
- John Tazare
- Rohini Mathur
- Anna Schultze
- Ben Goldacre
- Stephen JW. Evans
- Brian MacKenna
- Tom Ward
- Frank Hester
- William J. Hulme
- Jonathan Cockburn
- Sanjay Kinra
- Peter Inglesby
- David Evans
- Richard Croker
- Jessica Morley
- Liam Smeeth
- Elizabeth J. Williamson
- Chris Bates
- Krishnan Bhaskaran
- John Parry
- Caroline E. Morton
- Christopher T. Rentsch
- Laurie A. Tomlinson
- Ian J. Douglas
- Amir Mehrkar
- Poppy AC. Mallinson
Institutions
- University of London (GB)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- British Heart Foundation (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Nuffield Health (GB)
- National Institute of Nutrition (IN)
- Qatar University (QA)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
- Published
- 2026-02-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101605
- Primary Topic
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Medical Research Council