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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Research

Case–Control Study of Long COVID, Sapporo, Japan

Toshiaki Asakura1, Takashi Kimura1Comments to Author , Isaku Kurotori, Katabami Kenichi, Miyuki Hori, Mariko Hosogawa, Masayuki Saijo, Kaori Nakanishi, Hiroyasu Iso, and Akiko Tamakoshi
Author affiliations: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (T. Asakura, T. Kimura, I. Kurotori, K. Kenichi, A. Tamakoshi); National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (M. Hori, M. Hosogawa, H. Iso); Health and Welfare Bureau, Sapporo (M. Saijo, K. Nakanishi)

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Table 1

Demographic of participants in a case–control study of long COVID, Sapporo, Japan*

Characteristics No. (%)
Cases, n = 3,694 Controls, n = 3,672
Age group, y
20–29 608 (16.5) 420 (11.4)
30–39 772 (20.9) 735 (20.0)
40–49 1,011 (27.4) 1,001 (27.3)
50–65
1,303 (35.3)
1,516 (41.3)
Sex
M 1,528 (41.4) 1,591 (43.3)
F
2,166 (58.6)
2,081 (56.7)
No. COVID-19 vaccines†
0 407 (11.0) 220 (6.0)
1 65 (1.8) 22 (0.6)
2 2,233 (60.4) 1,982 (54.0)
3
989 (26.8)
1,448 (39.4)
Time after illness onset, mo
2–3‡ 55 (1.5) NA
4–6 126 (3.4) NA
7–9 1,117 (30.2) NA
10–12 1,264 (34.2) NA
13–18 451 (12.2) NA
>19
681 (18.4)
NA
Illness severity‡
Asymptomatic 115 (3.1) NA
Mild 2,952 (79.9) NA
Moderate 334 (9.0) NA
Severe 36 (1.0) NA
Missing 257 (7.0) NA

*NA, not applicable. †As of April 5, 2022.
‡Severity during acute phase of infection.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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