A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported study has found that routine lab tests may not be useful in making a long COVID diagnosis for people who have symptoms of the condition
NIH/National Heart , Lung and Blood InstituteAug 12 2024 A National Institutes of Health -supported study has found that routine lab tests may not be useful in making a long COVID diagnosis for people who have symptoms of the condition. The study, part of NIH's Research ing COVID to Enhance Recovery Initiative and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine , highlights how challenging it can be to identify and diagnose a novel illness such as long COVID.
Long COVID encompasses a wide spectrum of symptoms and health conditions that persist for months or years after infection from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. No validated clinical biomarkers of long COVID have been found to date, so diagnosing the condition currently requires gathering a detailed medical history and having patients take a physical exam to understand their symptoms, as well as getting laboratory work to rule out other causes.
The RECOVER Adult Cohort includes both individuals with and without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and individuals with and without long COVID. Nearly 19% of the study population were identified as having long COVID. The researchers also noted slightly elevated increases in uACR, a measure of low kidney function, in participants with previous infection, but those were only seen in a minority of people in that group and may have resulted from severity of the initial infection.
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