Seems to suggest severity of neurological Long COVID symptoms is not associated with severity of acute infection. See study thread
Relevant to the fact mild infection is seen as much in long COVID as severe
Background A variety of symptoms, particularly cognitive, psychiatric and neurological symptoms, may persist for a long time among individuals...
Also @Dakota15 would it be possible to put tweets in quote boxes when you share them. Them loading slowly when they are not in quote boxes...
It’s actually pretty sad how little is being spent on basic biomedical research, and as a result, how little we know about the actual disease process.
Given these results though. It sounds like the main effect was that: “people with Long COVID (without PEM) who exercise tend to improve exertional...
And it’s a randomised controlled trial? And objective primary outcome measures? That’s probably the best methodology I’ve seen on a Rehabilitation...
It seems cytotoxicity (the ability of a stressor to damage cells) can be a phenomenon that is delayed in comparison to the original stimulus. Ie....
Also do note that the author of this paper isn’t very ME informed. ie....
If we knew, we probably wouldn’t be here. In my opinion given the lack of findings, it’s probably related to a complex mix of factors which are...
Abstract: Current research into mood disorders indicates that circulating immune mediators participating in the pathophysiology of chronic...
Aswell as this potentially being relevant to ME/CFS, because one theory is that the body is stuck in a persistent “sickness response” loop...
Abstract: Everyone knows that an infection can make you feel sick. Although we perceive infection-induced changes in metabolism as a pathology,...
So do I. I feel a possible hypothesis is that there is a negative feedback loop somewhere in the sickness response of pwME which leads the body to...
Abstract: Sufficient evidence is now available to accept the concept that the brain recognizes cytokines as molecular signals of sickness....
“These effects [physiological response to acute infection] result in decreased muscle and aerobic performance, the full recovery of which may...
Abstract: Acute infections are associated with multiple host responses that are triggered by cytokines and correlated to fever, malaise and...
Abstract: Exertional fatigue, defined as the overwhelming and debilitating sense of sustained exhaustion that impacts the ability to perform...
You just taught me something new today, thanks! I imagined if it didn’t work with the “edit” function it wouldn’t work at all.
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