Researchers have now found several immune and hormonal differences in the blood of long covid patients, which could help them develop an accurate test for it.
. Currently, long covid is a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning that it’s diagnosed after other plausible explanations for a person’s illness have been ruled out. There are commonly shared symptoms of long covid, such as chronic fatigue and “brain fog,” but there is still no simple test for identifying someone with it.Some studies have shown measurable abnormalities in a proportion of people diagnosed with long covid.
and were matched to the long covid patients in terms of age and other factors. The scientists then compared the blood samples of each group.Overall, they managed to find consistent immune and hormonal differences between people with and without long covid. Those with long covid tended to have an “exaggerated” humoral immune response to the coronavirus, for example . The researchers also used machine learning that took their findings into account to develop a potential diagnostic algorithm.
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