Long COVID
From the Journals
63% of long COVID patients are women, study says
The global study also found that about 6% of people with symptomatic infections had long COVID in 2020 and 2021.
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Epidemic of brain fog? Long COVID’s effects worry experts
“We need to be paying attention to this. What we’ve seen is really the tip of the iceberg.”
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Previous endemic coronavirus encounters linked with long COVID
Long COVID may be an unusual response to previously encountered non–SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses, researchers report.
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What we know about long COVID so far
“People with these unexplained symptoms may be misunderstood by their health care providers, which can result in a long time for them to get a...
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People of color bearing brunt of long COVID, doctors say
“We are getting a very skewed population of Caucasian wealthy people who are coming to our clinic.”
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Post-COVID fatigue, exercise intolerance signal ME/CFS
Of people with persistent fatigue and exertion intolerance following COVID-19, nearly half met the strictest diagnostic criteria for myalgic...
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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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COVID-19 may trigger irritable bowel syndrome
Estimates of the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms with COVID-19 have ranged as high as 60%.
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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.