The more time passes, the more the long covid seems close to joining the ranks of diseases considered to be chronic by doctors, according to a new study which assesses the severity of the symptoms two years after the infection. The causes of the disease are always indeterminate.
Should Cavid Long now be qualified as chronic disease to the low possibility of healing? “”We fear it“, Answers Professor Winfried Kern, internist doctor and infectiologist at the University of Friborg (Germany). Two thirds of patients suffering from Covid Long have no improvement in symptoms in the second year after infection, according to work that he recently managed, published in the journal PLoS Medicine.
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Two thirds of adults affected by the Long Cavid are still sick two years after the infection
“I could not find the bathroom in my apartment because of memory problems and I had to open the door to be sure of the room in which I was“The testimonies of patients with which Winfried Kern remembers and are numerous and recall that almost five years after the COVVI-19 swept through the world, the COVID LONG or Post-Covid syndrome is still raging.
Fatigue, dyspnea (short breath) in exercise, concentration difficulties, sleep and memory disorders, the symptoms are diverse and not very specific to this syndrome. If other post-infectious syndromes exist, such as post-clrippale fatigue, post-chikungunya arthritis or post-infection fatigue by the Ebola virus, “It is a mixture of pathologies which often depend on the severity of the initial infection” Who “do not really help us to understand post-Cavid-19 syndrome“, précise Winfried Kern.
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These symptoms were still present in two thirds of the 982 adults under the age of 65 suffering from COVID LONG, reveal the researchers. “”The most important tests were the cardiopulmonary effort test (EFX), the assessment of the grip force, a battery of neurocognitive tests and in-depth laboratory tests“, whose results[…]
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