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Long COVID diagnosis complicated by vague symptoms, overlap with other illnesses--new studies
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Tue, 2024-10-01 09:44 — mike kraft
Vague symptoms, overlap with other illnesses complicate long-COVID diagnosis If the third vaccine dose was administered 16 weeks or less before infection, healthcare providers had lower odds of reporting respiratory symptoms. CIDRAP
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... in Nature Communications, Monday, Canadian researchers highlight diagnostic challenges with the World Health Organization's clinical definition of long COVID, with a study showing that over a third of previously infected emergency department (ED) patients met the criteria—as did a fifth of those who reported no history of infection.
And a related systematic review and meta-analysis by Australian researchers finds that 51% of long-COVID patients also met the diagnostic criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The research was published yesterday in the Journal of Infection. ME/CFS is a complex, long-term illness characterized by extreme fatigue aggravated by physical or mental activity.
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