New study links obesity to long COVID symptoms

Center of Precision Health visiting Ph.D. scholar Ms. Debora Barbosa Ronca found that people with excess weight are more likely to experience long-term neurological and mental health symptoms after ... Read More

Long Covid’s neurological symptoms tied to obesity

Here’s another clue to who might be more vulnerable than others to long Covid. A new study published Wednesday in PLOS has identified neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms — headaches, vertigo, ... Read More

New evidence shows long COVID’s toll on health across all U.S. states

A nationally representative U.S. study of over 100,000 adults found that post-COVID conditions (PCCs) significantly reduce quality of life. Key risk factors for poor health outcomes include obesity, ... Read More

COVID is still around and a risk to vulnerable people. What are the symptoms in 2025? And how long does it last?

COVID was all we could think about. Today, we'd rather forget about lockdowns, testing lines and social distancing. But the virus that sparked the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, is still circulating. Read More

Excess weight raises risk for several long COVID symptoms

Excess weight and obesity were significantly associated with long COVID-related neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms, a systematic review and meta-analysis showed.The findings build upon prior ... Read More

Breakthrough Long COVID Study: Large Recovery in Symptoms and Return to Work

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have identified what is believed to be the first intervention found in a randomized controlled trial to show large and very large ... Read More

Long COVID linked to functional disability, study shows

Long COVID symptoms were associated with functional ability limitations in adults and older adults, a study finds. The report was published April 19 in BMC Public Health. Authors wanted to better ... Read More

Study finds 70% of young people with long COVID recover within two years

The researchers used this definition for their new study ... six, 12 and 24 months after their original test. Of these 943 young people, 233 met the research definition of long COVID three ... Read More

Do you have long COVID? Check for these symptoms

Diagnosis involves recognizing these varied symptoms, and treatment focuses on managing them while clinical trials explore further solutions. Long COVID is no joke. In 2022, 6.9% of US adults ... Read More

Leading long COVID researcher fears it could become a national epidemic

Long COVID is defined ... study, but whether they got tested? Ultimately, he cannot know. That falls in line with an ongoing long COVID survey being taken by the New York City Department of Health ... Read More