Does pre-existing respiratory disease affect 3-month outcome following COVID hospitalisation across 4 waves: A prospective cohort analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: olivia.vandekerckhove@uzleuven.be.
• ² Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ³ Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁴ Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁵ Department of General Internal Medicine, Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.