Long COVID

Approximately 16% of children and adolescents diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 had a persistent symptom 3 months after infection, according to the results of a systematic review of more than 15,000 patients.

Long COVID symptoms widely ranged based on the severity of the acute illness phase, demonstrating the need for individualized and multidisciplinary care, according to researchers.

Patients with autoimmune diseases or long COVID who used a personalized digital care program alongside other non-pharmacologic strategies were more likely to achieve better health-related quality of life scores, according to data.

Having healthy sleep before being infected with SARS-CoV-2 may help protect against long COVID, according to the results of research published in JAMA Network Open.

In the TRAVERSE trial, men with hypogonadism at high risk for CVD who received testosterone had a similar risk for major adverse cardiovascular events compared with those who received placebo.

PHILADELPHIA — Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is a common cardiac complication in COVID-19 survivors and research is ongoing as to optimal treatments, a speaker said during the Heart in Diabetes CME Conference.

New video game modifications can help others to understand what it is like to live with long COVID.

Adults with overweight or obesity who received metformin shortly after a COVID-19 diagnosis had a lower risk for developing long COVID than those receiving placebo, according to study data.

Adults diagnosed with COVID-19 who had long COVID at a 6-month follow-up had lower vitamin D levels than COVID-19 survivors without long COVID, according to data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Researchers created a symptom-based scoring system that may help diagnose long COVID more easily. The scoring system is based on 12 common symptoms identified in a study that included almost 10,000 participants.