During the current COVID-19 pandemic, researchers estimate that the prevalence of prolonged covid among the general population may be between 20% and 40%. About 8 to 23 million Americans have developed prolonged covid after surviving waves of infections.
Although the condition is not more unusual in women, the individual may simply enjoy prolonged covid through a wide variety of symptoms that may be only neurological and psychiatric with manifestations such as mental confusion, inattention and memory disorders. Other patients with prolonged covid may simply suffer from shortness of breath or have gastrointestinal or cardiovascular disorders for months.
In a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, an organization of researchers found that women who had a healthy lifestyle before a covid-19 infection had a particularly lower risk of covid in the long run. -COVID-19 status (CCP) or prolonged organ-like covid symptoms. Inflammatory spots have also been relevant with other post-infectious syndromes, such as postviral fatigue syndrome,” the researchers wrote in their study.
“Similar factors to a healthy lifestyle, adding a healthy body mass index, abstinence from smoking, a healthy diet, moderate alcohol consumption, normal exercise, and getting enough sleep have been known to protect against inflammation,” they added.
To investigate the relationship between a healthy lifestyle before Americans tested positive for covid and their threat of prolonged covid later on, the team recruited participants from the Nurses’ Health Study II. In 1989, this study enrolled 116,429 nurses living in the United States and older people ages 25 to 42. The researchers used knowledge from 32,000 nurses who had completed questionnaires that delved into their lifestyle behavior from 2015 to 2017 and also provided a history of any Covid-19 infections from April 2020 to November 2021. More than 97% of them were white.
During this era, 1900 nurses had tested positive for Covid-19. Of those, 44% had prolonged Covid symptoms. Of these, 87% or 758 nurses had reported symptoms lasting at least 2 months. Another 56. 5% said they suffered from an alteration in their daily lives similar to a long Covid era. “The maximum non-unusual symptoms were fatigue (57. 1%), disturbances with smell or taste (40. 9%), shortness of breath (25. 3%), confusion, disorientation or brain fog. (21. 6%) and memory disorders (20%). ” The researchers looked more after analyzing the data.
“Compared to women who didn’t adhere to any healthy lifestyle points, those who had five or six points of healthy lifestyle had a 49% lower risk of prolonged covid. These associations were primarily due to a healthy body weight and good enough sleep,” they added.
The researchers added that other types of biological mechanisms may just be the associations they observed. For starters, everything bad about life they observed has always been linked to an increased risk of chronic inflammation in previous studies.
“Sustained systemic inflammation has been implicated in the progression of prolonged covid. Chronic inflammation would possibly predispose Americans to excessive release of cytokines after infection, which would subsequently expand the threat of long-term headaches in multiple organs,” the researchers explained. Lifestyle points disrupt adaptive autoimmunity, which has long been discovered in other people with Covid. In addition, bad lifestyle points (obesity, smoking, excessive alcohol and physical consumption) predispose to abnormalities in blood clotting, some other pathophysiological substitution observed in other people with Covid for a long time.
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