Inside Precision Medicine August 23, 2024
A study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that while there are similar patterns of how long COVID affects virtually every organ system in both younger children and adolescents, younger children were more likely to experience headache, while those older were most likely to suffer from low energy and tiredness.
The findings, published this week in JAMA, comes from data collected via the NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, a broad project focused on learning more about long COVID, and how to treat and prevent its occurrence. The new data are an important step in better understanding how long COVID affects different populations.
“Most research characterizing long COVID symptoms is focused on adults, which...