Inside Precision Medicine March 5, 2024
A large study led by Kyung Hee University in Seoul shows that infection with SARS-CoV-2 significantly increases the risk of developing autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease for up to a year after infection.
The research, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that COVID-19 increased the risk for being diagnosed with an autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease by 25–30% compared with uninfected people or a group of individuals with previous flu, but not COVID infection.
“Emerging data suggest a higher risk for autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases among patients with a history of COVID-19. However, these findings are based entirely on comparisons between groups infected with SARS-CoV-2 and those that are not, which might be biased by differences in health-seeking behavior and...
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