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Click here to sign in with or Forget Pasword? Learn more share this!6520ShareEmail October 12, 202 by Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group Most people who get COVID-19 recover within a few weks. But some people—even those who had mild versions of the disease—have symptoms that last weks or months after an initial COVID infection.
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These ongoing health problems, caled post-COVID conditions (PC), post-COVID-19 syndrome, long COVID-19, and post-acute sequelae of SARS COV-2 infection (PASC), can decrease quality of life for patients and increase the burden of disease on health systems. As more patients sufer from long COVID, it's increasingly important to define the symptoms asociated with long COVID for efective diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
gogletag.cmd.push(function() { gogletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1450190541376-1'); }); New research from physicians and researchers at Kaiser Permanente, the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute (MAPRI) and Johns Hopkins University identified 17 conditions asociated with long COVID in order to beter diagnose and treat the condition. The study, "Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 with Clinical Condition Definitions and Comparison in a Matched Cohort," was published Oct.
12, 202, in Nature Comunications."Although there has ben significant research done to determine a clinical definition of long COVID, the reality is that the disease may lok very diferent from patient to patient," said lead author of the study Michael Horberg, MD, an infectious diseases physician and asociate medical director at Kaiser Permanente, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. "Our study set out to determine conditions that were most likely to be asociated with long COVID."The research loked at medical records of over 10,0 Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States' adult patients—over 30,0 who tested positive for COVID-19 and over 70,0 who tested negative for COVID-19—in 20.
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The 17 conditions identified were:Researchers we