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The given text provides information on the Post-Hospitalisation COVID-19 (PHOSP-COVID) study, a national UK multicentre cohort study that aims to investigate the medium- and long-term effects of severe COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. The study collects data on physical measures, biological samples, and patient-reported outcome measures from participants who were hospitalized for COVID-19 and subsequently discharged. The study aims to understand the long-term health effects of COVID-19, evaluate the effects of treatments, and inform future clinical trials and care for patients with long COVID. The study has found that a significant number of participants continue to experience health impairments even 5 months after hospital discharge for COVID-19, including symptoms such as muscle aches, fatigue, impaired sleep quality, joint pain, breathlessness, and mental health issues. At 1 year after discharge, there was little improvement in symptoms and health impairments. The study has identified risk factors for lack of recovery and new or worse breathlessness. The study has strengths in its large sample size and multidimensional data collection, but there are limitations such as potential recall bias and selection bias. The data from the study can be accessed through the PHOSP-COVID study website. The study has various working groups covering different areas of research and involves multiple authors and affiliations. The research article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on the respiratory system and the long-term effects it may have on patients. The research was conducted at the National Institute [Extracted from the article]

Background: COVID-19 has taken its toll on citizens in all 50 states of the United States. The United States (U.S.) leads the world with 30,291,863 confirmed reported cases and 549,664 deaths as of March 29, 2021 compared to globally confirmed cases at 127,442,926 and 2,787,915 deaths as of March 29, 2021. The U.S. federal government primarily left the response to the virus to individual states, and each implemented varying measures designed to protect health of citizens and the state's economic well-being. Unintended consequences of the virus and measures to stop its spread may include decreased physical activity and exercise, shifting access and consumption of food, and lower quality-of-life. Therefore, our primary goal was to quantify the impact of COVID-19 on health and well-being by measuring changes in physical activity, mental health-quality of life, food security and nutrition in adults ages 40 and older. We believed shifts in health behaviors would be more prevalent in minorities, less educated, lower socio-economic status, older adults, and those with underlying health conditions, so a secondary goal was to determine the impact of COVID-19 on these sub-populations.Methods: We conducted an online survey with 9969 adults 40 years and older between 9 August and 15 September 2020 in urban areas across the four U.S. census regions. The survey included questions about demographic variables, pre-existing health conditions, physical activity, access to food, quality-of-life, and nutritional food status and asked participants to respond with information from pre-pandemic and pandemic conditions. We used paired-sample t-tests to detect changes in variables after the start of the pandemic and Cohen's d to determine effect sizes.Results: Our main findings showed a decrease in physical activity since the onset of COVID-19 for minorities and non-minorities. Food security also slightly increased for minorities during the pandemic, but we found no other changes in food security, quality-of-life indicators, or nutritional status of those who responded to this survey.Conclusions: It is concerning that physical activity declined. Such activity helps maintain physical and mental health, and it is also an important time to socialize for many older adults. In many ways, our data indicate that the older adult population in U.S. cities may be more resilient than expected during the pandemic. However, the pandemic could have negative impacts that we did not detect, either due to the survey instrument or the timing of our survey, so the health and well-being of older adults should continue to be monitored in order to mitigate potential negative impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]