Does pre-existing respiratory disease affect 3-month outcome following COVID hospitalisation across 4 waves: A prospective cohort analysis - 08/06/24

Olivia Vandekerckhove ^{a, ⁎} , Eveline Claeys ^a, Nele Steyaert ^a, Walter De Wever ^b, Laurent Godinas ^{a, c}, Wim Janssens ^{a, c}, Lieven Dupont ^{a, c}, Pascal Van Bleyenbergh ^a, Greet Hermans ^{d, e}, Natalie Lorent ^{a, c}

^a Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 

^b Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium 

^c Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 

^d Department of General Internal Medicine, Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 

^e Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 

^⁎Corresponding author at: Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.Department of Respiratory DiseasesUniversity Hospitals LeuvenHerestraat 49Leuven3000Belgium