by SAGE Publications Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new comprehensive study of organ impairment in long COVID patients over 12 months shows organ damage persisted in 59% of patients a year after initial symptoms, even in those not severely affected when first diagnosed with the virus. The study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society...
by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain Women who followed most aspects of a healthy lifestyle, including healthy body weight, not smoking, regular exercise, adequate sleep, high quality diet, and moderate alcohol consumption, had about half the risk of long COVID compared with women without any healthy lifestyle factors, according...
by University of Missouri Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new study, a team of University of Missouri researchers have made an unexpected discovery: People experiencing long-lasting effects from COVID-19—known as “long COVID” or post-COVID conditions—are susceptible to developing only seven health symptoms for up to a year following the infection. They are: fast-beating heart, hair...
Echo Xie+ myNEWS Published: 6:00 am, 22 Jan 2023 Lingering symptoms of Covid-19 currently affect 10 percent of patients, researchers say. Photo: AFP It is estimated that tens of millions of people worldwide are suffering with symptoms that have come to be known as long Covid. According to a new study by a group of researchers from the...
By UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS JANUARY 17, 2023 A rehabilitation program that helps people with long COVID reduce their symptoms and increase activity levels has shown “impressive” results. The program is based on a gradual or paced increase in a patient’s physical activity. The findings showed that before the start of the program, patients were reporting an average...
Will Pass January 12, 2023 Long COVID is typically characterized by anosmia and dysgeusia, cognitive impairment, dyspnea, weakness, and palpitations, with younger patients showing greatest improvements at 1 year, according to a nationwide cohort study conducted in Israel. These findings help define long COVID, guiding providers and patients through the recovery process, Barak Mizrahi, MSc, of KI Research Institute, Kfar...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Hypothesized mechanisms of long COVID pathogenesis. There are several hypothesized mechanisms for long COVID pathogenesis, including immune dysregulation, microbiota disruption, autoimmunity, clotting and endothelial abnormality, and dysfunctional neurological signaling. EBV, Epstein–Barr virus; HHV-6, human herpesvirus 6; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Credit: Nature Reviews Microbiology (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41579-022-00846-2 A small team of researchers,...
By Rich Haridy January 08, 2023 Researchers are attempting to understand the risk factors that make different people more susceptible to various long COVID symptoms Depositphotos Using machine learning to track symptom clusters in around 35,000 COVID patients, researchers have identified four distinct types of long COVID. The findings suggest long COVID is a diverse disease with...
By REBECCA WHITTAKER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 06:03 EST, 29 December 2022 | UPDATED: 07:38 EST, 29 December 2022 Women who think they have long Covid could actually be going through the menopause, experts say. Doctors warn the symptoms for both — such as fatigue, muscle aches and brain fog — are very similar. The majority of long...
THE CONVERSATION – 1/5/2023, 8:34 AM Enlarge / Symptoms of long COVID-19 include fatigue, shortness of breath, and cognitive issues. Getty Images / ArtistGNDphotography The big idea Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19—or long COVID—recently published in...
