Some people are more likely to get long COVID because they don't have access to proper health care or can't afford it. Having a low income or not being able to get enough rest during the first few weeks of having COVID-19 also seems to raise the risk of getting long COVID, accord...
However, it is largely unknown whether autoimmune reactions directed against neuronal proteins are a feature of Long COVID disease. Hence, the aim of this study is to examine autoantibodies (IgA/IgM/IgG) directed at MBP, myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), cerebellar-protein-2, synapsin, ...
Both “long hauler” and “long COVID” were terms coined by patients—itself a unique phenomenon; diseases are usually named by the doctors who discover them. Although long COVID is caused by a novel virus, post-infection disease is not new. Think of post-polio syndrome and AIDS.” Fig...
Chronic kidney disease is a key risk factor for severe COVID-19: a call to action by the ERA-EDTAdoi:10.1093/ndt/gfaa314Alberto OrtizMario CozzolinoDanilo FliserPriya Vart
Long covid (post covid-19 condition) is a complex condition with diverse manifestations, uncertain prognosis and wide variation in current approaches to management. There have been calls for formal quality standards to reduce a so-called “postcode lottery” of care. The original aim of this stu...
the acute and chronic immunopathology of such a viral disease[7,8]. Furthermore, persistent changes in the immune system may also occur, resulting in a possible relationship with the occurrence of long COVID[7]. However, more targeted evidence is still scarce and the specific topic related to...
Related:Long Covid feels like a gun to my head In 2013, psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disordersofficially adoptedthe more neutral-sounding term “functional neurological symptom disorder” as an alternate name for conversion disorder. (In practice, the word “symptom” is...
This study sought to establish the long-term effects of Covid-19 following hospitalisation. Methods 327 hospitalised participants, with SARS-CoV-2 infection were recruited into a prospective multicentre cohort study at least 3 months post-discharge. The primary outcome was self-reported recovery at ...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can involve persistence, sequelae, and other clinical complications that last weeks to months to evolve into long COVID-19. Exploratory studies have suggested that interleukin-6 (IL-6) is related to COVID-19; however, the correlation between IL-6 and long...
A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID "long haulers" were more likely to be older and female, with more chronic conditions than people in a comparison group who—after getting COVID—did not have diagnosed long COVID o