Are you at higher risk?
. But according to one new study, finding out if you're at a higher risk of severe COVID could be as easy as looking at your hands. Read on to see which health sign your extremities might hold.Having a shorter ring finger compared to your index finger might indicate you're at higher risk of severe COVID.on March 17. A team of researchers from Swansea University in the U.K.
The team gathered 154 participants and measured the second, third, fourth, and fifth fingers on each of their hands. Out of the group, 54 people had been infected with COVID-19, and the remaining 100 acted as a healthy control group. Results showed that people with a bigger size ratio difference between their second and fourth fingers, as well as between their third and fifth fingers, were associated with more severe cases of COVID-19, according to a press release from the university.
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