Managed Healthcare Executive November 4, 2024
Identifying the underlying causes of prolonged lung inflammation associated with radiographic abnormalities could be key understanding long COVID and other lung conditions, researchers say.
About 1 in 10 people who have had COVID-19 report experiencing lingering effects of the disease, which include brain fog and shortness of breath. There are some gray areas about how cases of what has become known as long COVID get defined and counted so that proportion sometimes reported as being much higher — up to 1 in 3. Regardless, millions of people in the U.S. have long COVID and researchers are still figuring out why and how it might be prevented and treated.
Pulmonologists at the Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive COVID-19 Center were noticing an increasing...
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