covid: more on long covid insights
Another recent study also looked at PASC, Post-acute sequelae of Covid-19, an acronymic variant of POSC of the last blog) to elicit early risk factors that seem to anticipate PASC development, through a multi-omic assessment (see covid long covid early factors cell2022 in dropbox, or doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.01.014). In brief ( lots more details in this 52-page document: Details: -- 209 covid patients in their primary cohort were followed from initial diagnosis to convalescence (2-3 months later), paired with 457 healthy controls -- mean age 56, 50% female, BMI 30, 51% white/13% Asian/10% Black, 71% admitted to the hospital/56% respiratory support/30% ICU admission -- comorbidities: hypertension 40%, diabetes 23%, asthma 16%, cancer 11%, -- timelines assessed: initial clinical diagnosis (T1), acute disease (T2), and 2 to 3 months post onset of initial symptoms (T3) -- blood draws were assessed for a remarkably ...