Category: Long COVID
Utah clinic offers new treatment for patients dealing with Long COVID
KSL.com While the COVID-19 pandemic may seem like it’s in the rearview mirror, many people are still struggling with long-term effects of the disease. At one point in 2022, the CDC reported that 1 in 5 adults who contracted the virus were still experiencing long COVID. The numbers have decreased since then, but the effects of long […]
Dec 26, 2023
‘Long Flu’ Is Real — But Long COVID Is Worse, Study Shows
MedPage Today Long-term effects from influenza affect the respiratory system, long COVID is multisystemic. In patients hospitalized for either COVID-19 or seasonal influenza, rates of death, negative effects on long-term health, and hospital readmissions were high, but less so for the flu patients, a comparative analysis showed. Over 18 months of follow-up, patients hospitalized with […]
Dec 19, 2023
True prevalence of long-COVID in a nationwide, population cohort study
Nature Long-COVID prevalence estimates vary widely and should take account of symptoms that would have occurred anyway. Here we determine the prevalence of symptoms attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection, taking account of background rates and confounding, in a nationwide population cohort study of 198,096 Scottish adults. 98,666 (49.8%) had symptomatic laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections and 99,430 (50.2%) […]
Dec 5, 2023
Long COVID Immune Profiles Appear Largely Normal
MedPageToday Brain inflammation may not be a cause of long COVID cognitive problems. Spinal fluid immune profiles were largely normal in people with neurologic long COVID symptoms in a case-control study, suggesting brain inflammation was not a cause of long COVID cognitive symptoms. In 37 people with post-COVID neuropsychiatric conditions — most commonly, brain fog […]
Nov 14, 2023
Could low serotonin levels contribute to Long COVID?
ABC News A new study suggests this may lead to symptoms seen in long COVID patients. Decreased levels of serotonin in the body may be a contributing factor in the development and persistence of so-called ‘long COVID’ symptoms, according to a new study. Researchers suggest that, even after acute COVID symptoms subside, traces of the virus […]
Oct 17, 2023
Long COVID, ‘Long Cold’: What to Know About Post-Acute Infection Syndromes
Yale Medicine Researchers are exploring how various pathogens cause chronic symptoms. As researchers learn more about Long COVID and what causes coronavirus symptoms to persist, attention is shifting to other post-acute infection syndromes, including what some are calling “long cold.” It’s long been known that various viruses can cause symptoms—sometimes mild, sometimes debilitating—to persist for […]
Oct 17, 2023
How common long COVID is may depend on how it’s defined
CIDRAP In Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Dutch scientists report that the definition of post-COVID condition (PCC, or long COVID) matters when estimating prevalence in a population. In people who had previously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the prevalence of long-term symptoms varied from 26.9% to 64.1%, depending on which of six different definitions was used, while in those who […]
Sep 19, 2023
Long COVID symptoms can improve, but their resolution is slow and imperfect
The Conversation Around 5–10% of people who get infected with SARS-CoV-2 will experience symptoms that persist way beyond the initial acute period, a clinical syndrome we are learning more about, known widely as long COVID. Shortness of breath, brain fog, lethargy and tiredness, loss of smell or taste are common features of long COVID, as is the development […]
Sep 5, 2023
‘Elegant’ study connects COVID with mitochondria gene disruptions, paving way for new treatments
Fierce Biotech Scientists and clinicians studying COVID-19 have long suspected that the disease doesn’t just affect the lungs, but many other organ systems too. Now, researchers have identified a mechanism that could explain why and reveal new pathways to find treatments for long COVID. In a study published Aug. 9 in Science, a team led by Children’s Hospital of […]
Aug 15, 2023
Long COVID: Mitochondria, the Big Miss, and Hope
Medscape This week there was news on Long COVID in two very different directions: emergence of strong data to support mitochondrial dysfunction as the basis for the condition in some people, and learning how the $1.15 billion allocation to the NIH RECOVER initiative has largely been wasted. In this edition of Ground Truths, I’ll review […]
Aug 15, 2023