Researchers are chasing a range of potential culprits in the race to find the causes of long COVID. Some things they agree on: There will be a number of different causes, and the symptoms will vary wildly from case to case.
Cortisol levels “alone were the most significant predictor for long COVID classification,” they wrote.At the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, researchers have been looking at the lungs of mice after they clear the virus to find out what is driving the disease.
But he and others suspect the immune response to COVID-19 can trigger processes similar to those seen in the early stages of pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive scarring of the lung. “Certain acute infections have long been associated with an unexplained chronic disability in a minority of patients,” they write in“These post-acute infection syndromes represent a substantial health care burden, but there is a lack of understanding of the underlying mechanisms, representing a significant blind spot in the field of medicine.”is one of those turning points,” she says.
For example, she believes that ME/CFS has multiple causes, and she has been investigating the things that may be at play. While about 75% of patients with ME/CFS report a triggering infection, the rest do not.
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