TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In rare cases, some patients may develop an autoimmune disease following a bout of COVID, Korean researchers report.
Conditions such as alopecia , psoriasis, vitiligo , vasculitis , Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, adult-onset Still's disease , Sjogren's syndrome , ankylosing spondylitis and sarcoidosis can all be triggered by COVID-19 infection, according to the new report.
"Given the significant global population of COVID-19 survivors, vigilant monitoring for emergent autoimmune diseases is paramount for timely intervention," she added. For the study, Lim and her colleagues collected data on nearly 355,000 men and women who had COVID-19. These patients were compared with more than 6 million people who didn't have COVID-19.
"As all of us know, COVID impacts so many aspects of the human body," said Dr. Bruce Hirsch, an infectious disease specialist at Northwell Health in Manhasset, N.Y."It's not surprising that COVID hit us the way it did without us having any pre-existing immune experience or immune protection, and it had a profound impact on the immune system."
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