Authors
Robert A Sykes, Andrew J Morrow, Alex McConnachie, Anna Kamdar, Catherine Bagot, Hannah K Bayes, Kevin G Blyth, Michael Briscoe, Heerajnarain Bulluck, David Carrick, Colin Church, David Corcoran, Christian Delles, Iain Findlay, Vivienne B Gibson, Lynsey Gillespie, Douglas Grieve, Pauline Hall Barrientos, Antonia Ho, Ninian N Lang, David J Lowe, Vera Lennie, Peter W Macfarlane, Kaitlin J Mayne, Patrick B Mark, Alasdair McIntosh, Ross McGeoch, Christopher McGinley, Connor McKee, Sabrina Nordin, Alexander Payne, Alastair J Rankin, Keith E Robertson, Nicola Ryan, Giles Roditi, Naveed Sattar, David Stobo, Sarah Allwood-Spiers, Rhian M Touyz, Gruschen Veldtman, Sarah Weeden, Stuart Watkins, Paul Welsh, Ryan Wereski, Kenneth Mangion, Colin Berry
Publication date
2024/3/1
Source
Heart
Volume
110
Issue
Suppl 1
Pages
A5-A7
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
Description
Introduction
We aimed to understand the impact of being a healthcare worker on the progression and outcomes of illness in individuals hospitalised because of post-COVID-19 complications.
Materials and Methods
The CISCO-19 study included patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and assessed baseline characteristics at index and multi-system phenotyping 28–60 days following discharge from hospital. Our analysis sought to compare the health and recovery metrics of healthcare workers within this cohort against those of non-healthcare professionals, considering variables like age, gender, cardiovascular risk, and severity of inflammation.
Results
A total of 168 patients, 28–60 days post their last hospital care, were assessed. Among them, 36 identified as healthcare workers. Comparatively, healthcare workers were found to be predominantly of a similar age to non-healthcare workers but had a higher proportion …
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