Long COVID
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How do you live with COVID? One doctor’s personal experience
Early in 2020, Anne Peters, MD, caught COVID-19. The author of Medscape’s “Peters on Diabetes” column was sick in March 2020 before state-mandated...
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Long COVID mimics other postviral conditions
“We think they are frighteningly similar, if not identical.”
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Is it COVID or long COVID? Your organs may know
COVID-19 can damage multiple organs in the body.
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Long COVID case study: persistent hormone deficiencies
This is the first published case of secondary adrenal insufficiency after recovery from COVID-19.
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Sexual dysfunction, hair loss linked with long COVID
The symptoms, among others, join a list of better-known symptoms linked to long COVID.
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Long COVID’s grip will likely tighten as infections continue
“If we conservatively assume 100 million working-age adults have been infected, that implies 10 to 33 million may have long COVID.”
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Treatments explored to ease postviral symptoms of ME/CFS and long COVID
“There aren’t cures, but there are many management techniques to improve symptoms.”
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One in eight COVID patients likely to develop long COVID: Large study
“This finding shows that post–COVID-19 condition is an urgent problem with a mounting human toll.”
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Why exercise doesn’t help people with long COVID
“We have participants in our study who had relatively mild acute symptoms and went on to have really profound decreases in their ability to...
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Long COVID comes in three forms: Study
“These data show clearly that post-COVID syndrome is not just one condition but appears to have several subtypes.”
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Immune response may explain brain damage after COVID-19
Antibodies appear involved in an attack on the cells lining the brain’s blood vessels.