Revealed: Only 7 health symptoms directly related to long Covid IANS Updated: January 31st, 2023, 12:53 IST in Feature , Sci-Tech 0 Pic- IANS Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on WhatsApp Share on Linkedin New York: Long Covid patients are susceptible to developing only seven health symptoms for up to a year following the infection, a new study has revealed. These seven symptoms are fast-beating heart, hair loss, fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, joint pain and obesity, according to a team of University of Missouri (MU) researchers in the US who made this unexpected discovery and published it in the Open Forum Infectious Diseases journal. “Despite an overwhelming number of long Covid symptoms previously reported by other studies, we only found a few symptoms specifically related to an infection from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19,” said Chi-Ren Shyu, director of the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics and the corresponding author of the study.
To develop their findings, the team reviewed real-world data from electronic medical records containing de-identified information for medical research purposes. After examining data from a total of 52,461 patients at 122 healthcare facilities across the US, the researchers selected the top 47 most commonly reported health symptoms from long Covid to examine for this study. Then, the researchers looked for any comparisons in the reported health symptoms — many also shared by other viral respiratory infections — among people in three different subgroups.
These subgroups included people diagnosed with Covid but do not have any common viral respiratory infections like influenza or pneumonia; People with common viral respiratory infections but do not have Covid and people who do not have Covid or any other common viral respiratory infections. Shyu said the results could benefit ongoing efforts by fellow researchers to study various impacts of Covid. “Now, researchers will be able to better understand how SARS-CoV-2 may mutate or evolve by creating new connections that we may not have known about before,” said Shyu.
“Going forward we can use electronic medical records to quickly detect subgroups of patients who may have these long-term health conditions,” the researcher noted. IANS Tags: COVID health Symptoms Share Tweet Send Share Suggest A Correction Enter your email to get our daily news in your inbox. Leave this field empty if you're human: Related Posts Electronics good exports growing at 55% annually, PLI to help local firms, says Economic Survey January 31, 2023 India spearheading one of world’s most ambitious clean energy transitions: Eco Survey January 31, 2023 We must strive to bring startups’ ownership back to country: Eco Survey January 31, 2023 WhatsApp faces privacy setting issue globally on iOS January 31, 2023 Why not Apple? When every other tech firm lays off thousands January 31, 2023 WhatsApp rolls out longer group subjects, descriptions on Android beta January 31, 2023 Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
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