{"id":118643,"date":"2024-10-26T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118643"},"modified":"2024-10-26T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T09:51:54","slug":"studies-show-long-covid-symptoms-distinct-from-other-respiratory-infections-common-in-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118643","title":{"rendered":"Studies show long-COVID symptoms distinct from other respiratory infections, common in Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two new studies offer fresh insights into long COVID, with the first noting a greater neurological, cognitive, and fatigue impact compared with long-term symptoms after similar respiratory diseases, and the second demonstrating that a fourth of young Marines who contracted COVID-19 went on to develop long COVID.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seven symptoms more common with long COVID<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2825348\"><u>In the first study<\/u><\/a>, published today in <em>JAMA Network Open<\/em>, researchers used data from the UK Biobank to compared postacute infection syndromes (PAIS) among patients with COVID-19 to other lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs). They showed that long-COVID patients have an increased risk of seven specific symptoms.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A total of 191,710 eligible participants identified since March 1, 2020, were included in the study. Of those, 1,153 were hospitalized with COVID-19, 1,304 were hospitalized with other LRTIs, and 189,253 uninfected patients were used as a reference group.<\/p>\n<p>Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were much more likely to report PAIS symptoms including loss of taste (odds ratio [OR], 2.27; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.87 to 2.75) and severe fatigue (OR, 2.18; 95% CI, 1.70 to 2.81) compared to the reference group. Overall, COVID patents were more likely to report 23 of 45 symptoms compared to the controls.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Compared to patients hospitalized for other LRTIs, COVID patients were more at risk for seven particular symptoms, including loss of smell (OR, 1.80; 95% CI, 1.34 to 2.42), loss of taste (OR, 1.52; 95% CI, 1.13 to 2.03), rapid heart rate upon standing (OR, 1.60; 95% CI, 1.12 to 2.29), problems with thinking (OR, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.14 to 1.62), bone pain (OR, 1.33; 95% CI, 1.06 to 1.67), mild fatigue (OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.01 to 1.40), and severe fatigue (OR, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.02 to 2.17).<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Patients with LRTIs were more likely to report a lingering persistent cough than were COVID patients.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compared with other LRTIs, COVID-19 appeared to impose an extra burden of neurological, cognitive, and fatigue symptoms<span>,<\/span>\u201d<span> the authors concluded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>25% of Marines developed long COVID<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The second study, published in <em>The Lancet Regional Health Americas<\/em>, describes how 25% of previously healthy US Marines showed signs of long COVID following even mild or asymptomatic COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanam\/article\/PIIS2667-193X(24)00236-9\/fulltext\"><u>the study<\/u><\/a>, 899 Marines (91.7% male) who tested positive for COVID-19 by polymerase chain reaction testing were followed up for almost a year to determine risk factors for developing long COVID, which the authors defined as persistent symptoms at least 4 weeks after symptom onset or diagnosis. The authors found a 24.7% prevalence of long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>The Marines were young (median age, 18) and healthy, having passed a number of Marine physical fitness tests prior to study enrollment. The participants were asked to complete a survey about COVID infection and symptoms. Overall, 197 Marines (24.7%) developed persistent symptoms after COVID infection.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The most prevalent symptoms reported by Marines were loss of taste and\/or smell (41.6%), shortness of breath (37.6%), and cough (22.8%). When compared with a pre-COVID cohort of Marines, the authors found the Marines reporting persistent COVID symptoms had slower running times on fitness tests.<\/p>\n<p>The authors said their findings are important in considering the implications of long COVID on a young and previously healthy workforce. Long COVID could &#8220;decrease work productivity and increase healthcare costs,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 307 participants (34.1%) had an asymptomatic infection. Among the 195 who described the severity of their infection, 77.4% reported a predominately mild illness, 20.0% reported moderate disease, and 2.6% reported severe illness.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Even in young healthy populations with very mild acute illness a proportion of infected individuals develop long-lasting symptoms<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The risk of long-term sequelae secondary to acute SARS-CoV-2 infection varies across studies; however, even in young healthy populations with very mild acute illness a proportion of infected individuals develop long-lasting symptoms,&#8221; the authors wrote.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/covid-19\/studies-show-long-covid-symptoms-distinct-other-respiratory-infections-common-marines\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new studies offer fresh insights into long COVID, with the first noting a greater neurological, cognitive, and fatigue impact compared with long-term symptoms after similar respiratory diseases, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118643\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}