Post-Acute Covid-19 Syndrome

Younger and middle-aged adults were more often affected by neurologic symptoms of long COVID than their older counterparts, regardless of how severe their initial infection was, data in Annals of Neurology show.

WASHINGTON — Three months after a COVID-19 infection, women with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome had worse airway measurements on CT scans than men, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

In this episode, Leonard H. Calabrese, DO, reviews the history and controversies of post-infection sequelae, as well as the facts and epidemiology of long COVID.

There are still more questions than answers regarding post-acute COVID-19 syndrome, despite mounting evidence documenting its existence, according to researchers.

Healio spoke with Bartolome Burguera, MD, chair of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute and a professor in the Lerner Institute of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, and Kristin Englund, MD, an infectious disease physician who leads the reCOVer Clinic — the Cleveland Clinic’s center for patients with long COVID-19 — to learn more about long COVID-19 among patients with obesity.

As experts continue to investigate long COVID, new research revealed that nonhospitalized COVID-19 survivors had a 60% increased risk for death after 30 days of illness.

As researchers try to determine who is most at risk for long COVID-19, evidence suggests that it is more common among women than men.