A new study revealed four preexisting risk factors for long COVID-19, including Type 2 diabetes.
The Epstein-Barr virus is a type of herpes virus, and it's extremely common;,"most people get infected with EBV at some point in their lives" before it goes dormant. In some long COVID cases, researchers found that the virus was active once again.
Researchers uncovered these four factors by studying a primary group of 209 people who contracted COVID-19 in 2020 or early 2021 and were treated in the Seattle area. Based on survey results and health records, researchers found that 37 percent of this group had three or more symptoms of long COVID. Of that long COVID group, 95 percent had one or more of the above factors, lead investigator Jim Heath, PhD, told the"New York Times.
The hope, though, is that this study opens the door for others and that these four initial factors provide the first hints of how to treat and potentially prevent long COVID.
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