"Based on our study inclusion criteria, we were unable to find any trials conducted to support patients with ongoing fatigue symptoms following confirmed viral exposure. However, a recent systematic review with broader inclusion criteria, which included both pharmacological and...
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While short-term effects of artificial light on human sleep are increasingly being studied, reports on long-term effects induced by season are scarce. Assessments of subjective sleep length over the year suggest a substantially longer sleep period during winter. Our retrospective study aimed to...
"Long Covid Kids welcome the publication of a WHO clinical case definition of Long COVID in children and young people. This was much needed and provides parity with the definition for adults. The definition was developed during a joint exercise between experts and community members with lived...
Abstract
Background
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a long-term condition of unknown physiopathology, whose hallmark symptoms are diffuse musculoskeletal chronic pain and fatigue.
Objectives
We aimed to analyze the associations among serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and calcitonin...
Abstract
Microglia play a vital role maintaining brain homeostasis but can also cause persistent neuroinflammation. Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) produced by the intestinal microbiota have been suggested to regulate microglia inflammation indirectly by signaling through the gut-brain axis or...
Abstract
While fatigue is found to be an impairing symptom in functional motor disorders (FMD) in clinical practice, scientific evidence is lacking. We investigated fatigue severity and subtypes in FMD compared to organic neurological disease. Furthermore, the role of fatigue within FMD and its...
Abstract
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is one of the commonest reasons that people seek help from a neurologist and is for many people a lifelong cause of disability and impaired quality of life. Although the evidence base regarding FND pathophysiology, treatment and service...
Introduction: In children, the manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the acute phase are considered mild compared with those in adults; however, some children experience a severe disease that requires hospitalization. This study was designed to present the operation and...
"Also noteworthy is the fact that the neurological cluster appears more prominently in younger groups, especially patients 21–45 years of age. Of particular note is the appearance of myalgic encephalomyelitis (listed in Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) as...
"Our diagnosis clusters suggest that long COVID is not a single phenotype, but rather a collection of sub-phenotypes that may benefit from different diagnostics and treatments. Each of these clusters contains conditions and symptoms reported in existing long COVID literature [34], clearly...
Now published.
Coding long COVID: characterizing a new disease through an ICD-10 lens 2023 Pfaff et al
Abstract
Background
Naming a newly discovered disease is a difficult process; in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the existence of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC)...
Full title: Four-year follow-up on fatigue and sleep quality of a three-armed partly randomized controlled study in breast cancer survivors with cancer-related fatigue
Abstract
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a frequent long-term symptom in non-metastasized breast cancer patients (BC). This...
As far as I can see there are none. There is nothing on the forum, and Google doesn't find anything either. My guess therefore would be that it is unpublished data that they are talking about.
Key Points
Question Is post–COVID-19 condition (PCC), also known as long COVID, associated with differences in employment status that might suggest functional impairment?
Findings Among 15 308 individuals with prior COVID-19 infection, those with PCC were less likely to be employed full-time...
Full title: A case of post-COVID-19 myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome characterized by post-exertional malaise and low serum acylcarnitine level
Abstract
COVID-19 afflicts patients with acute symptoms and longer term sequelae. One of the sequelae is myalgic...
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