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APRIL 25, 2023

Obese and Female Patients More Likely to Have Long COVID


Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

By IDSE News Staff

Obesity and female sex are consistent determinants for symptoms persisting after COVID-19, according to data shared at ECCMID 2023: the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, held in Copenhagen, Denmark (abstract O0045).

Researchers in the Netherlands analyzed the immunologic, clinical and psychosocial consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection in data from the RECoVERED