“We identify that some diagnoses commonly described as ‘long COVID’ do not appear significantly more frequent post-COVID-19 infection compared with other common [viral respiratory infections],” researchers wrote.
The team of researchers from the University of Missouri in Columbia looked at 17,487 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 before April 14 and found that coronavirus was directly associated with diagnoses of the following seven long COVID symptoms:
- Palpitations
- Hair loss
- Fatigue
- Chest pain
- Dyspnea
- Joint pain
- Obesity
