Long COVID Clinical Severity Types Based on Symptoms and Functional Disability: A Longitudinal Evaluation
❗Interesting study on 759 LC patients: LC = Multisystemic pathology
➡️"There are an estimated 1.9 million cases of LC in the UK alone and more than 200 million cases worldwide"
➡️"Three distinct clinical severity type clusters: mild, moderate and severe based on symptom severity (SS), functional disability (FD), and overall health (OH)
➡️"This study is the first of its kind to demonstrate that the pattern of three clinical severity types is consistent over time, with patients also switching between severity types, indicating the fluctuating nature of LC."
➡️"Clinical severity types might help understand the fluctuating nature of LC and improve the ability to stratify patients for targeted interventions and the planning of care pathways"
➡️❗"Clinicians must conceptualise the condition as multisystemic with common underlying mechanisms rather than isolated symptoms related to one organ system."
Study with some obvious limitations, but certainly a step forwards in our obligation to understand and help these C19 patients!
mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/7…
❗Interesting study on 759 LC patients: LC = Multisystemic pathology
➡️"There are an estimated 1.9 million cases of LC in the UK alone and more than 200 million cases worldwide"
➡️"Three distinct clinical severity type clusters: mild, moderate and severe based on symptom severity (SS), functional disability (FD), and overall health (OH)
➡️"This study is the first of its kind to demonstrate that the pattern of three clinical severity types is consistent over time, with patients also switching between severity types, indicating the fluctuating nature of LC."
➡️"Clinical severity types might help understand the fluctuating nature of LC and improve the ability to stratify patients for targeted interventions and the planning of care pathways"
➡️❗"Clinicians must conceptualise the condition as multisystemic with common underlying mechanisms rather than isolated symptoms related to one organ system."
Study with some obvious limitations, but certainly a step forwards in our obligation to understand and help these C19 patients!
mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/7…
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