A new research published in Science Translational Medicine reveals that long Covid, which affects over 65 million people worldwide, can have negative impacts on organs such as the heart and kidneys even after the lungs have recovered.
on Wednesday reviewed how Covid can negatively affect organs other than the lungs, resulting in long Covid.
Long Covid is lingering symptoms—like loss of smell or taste, chest pain, shortness of breath or brain fog—following recovery from a Covid infection that can last for weeks or even years,The cause of the issue stems from when the virus’ proteins bind to the genes of the mitochondria, the cells’ energy producer, which can negatively impact the body’s organs, leading to dysfunction.
The study also found that even if mitochondrial gene expression recovered in the lungs, the first organby Covid infection, it can still negatively impact other organs, including the heart, liver and kidneys. Long Covid most commonly affects people who suffered from severe Covid symptoms, people with underlying conditions, the unvaccinated and those who had multisystem inflammatory syndrome—a rare
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