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Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

24 Feb 2023 8:41 AM | IJCSA - (Administrator)

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

People with long COVID have symptoms such as pain, extreme fatigue and “brain fog,” or difficulty concentrating or remembering things. As of February 2022, the syndrome was estimated to affect about 16 million adults in the U.S. and had forced between two million and four million Americans out of the workforce, many of whom have yet to return. Long COVID often arises in otherwise healthy young people, and it can follow even a mild initial infection. Graphic highlights various ways SARS-CoV-2 can affect the brain and nerves, either by accessing and lingering in nervous system tissues or by stimulating the immune system to react in ways that damage the brain.

The risk appears at least slightly higher in people who were hospitalized for COVID and in older adults (who end up in the hospital more often). Women and those at socioeconomic disadvantage also face higher risk, as do people who smoke, are obese, or have any of an array of health conditions, particularly autoimmune disease. Vaccination appears to reduce the danger but does not entirely prevent long COVID.

More at source: Scientific America

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