People who reported sore throats, headaches, and hair loss soon after testing positive for COVID-19 may be more likely to have lingering symptoms months later, according to a recent study.
Researchers have been trying to determine who faces a higher risk for developing long COVID, with symptoms that can last for weeks, months, or years after the initial infection.
Crimmins and colleagues analyzed data from the Understanding Coronavirus in America survey, which followed nearly 8,000 people bi-weekly from March 2020 to March 2021. They focused on 308 non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were interviewed 1 month before their infection, around the time of infection, and 12 weeks after infection.
Among those, about 23% of the survey participants were still experiencing symptoms that lasted for more than 12 weeks, which the researchers considered as having long COVID. The most common persistent symptoms were headache , runny or stuffy nose , abdominal discomfort ,Long COVID was nearly seven times more likely among COVID-19 patients who experienced hair loss and about three times more likely among those who reported headaches and sore throats.
“Our assumption is that hair loss reflects extreme stress, potentially a reaction to a higher fever or medications,” Crimmins told the newspaper. “So it’s probably some indication of how severe the illness was.”
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