Women suffer more severe neurologic symptoms from long COVID than men, research finds for the first time
<p>New research from Northwestern Medicine showed for the first time that women suffer more severe neurologic symptoms due to long COVID, such as brain fog and numbness, than men.</p><p>The research, published Tuesday in the <a class="Link" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acn3.70468" target="_blank" ><u>Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology</u></a>, also found that women with long COVID experienced worse impacts on their quality of life and cognitive functioning than men.</p><p>The research is based on evaluations of 2,329 patients who sought care at Northwestern’s COVID clinic during a five-year period starting in May 2020 through last August. Women reported experiencing more neurologic symptoms than men about 16 months, on average, from when the symptoms first started, according to the journal article.
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<p>New research from Northwestern Medicine showed for the first time that women suffer more severe neurologic symptoms due to long COVID, such as brain fog and numbness, than men.</p><p>The research, published Tuesday in the <a class="Link" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acn3.70468" target="_blank" ><u>Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology</u></a>, also found that women with long COVID experienced worse impacts on their quality of life and cognitive functioning than men.</p><p>The research is based on evaluations of 2,329 patients who sought care at Northwestern’s COVID clinic during a five-year period starting in May 2020 through last August. Women reported experiencing more neurologic symptoms than men about 16 months, on average, from when the symptoms first started, according to the journal article. Some of the most common neurologic symptoms include brain fog, numbness, dizziness, tinnitus or ringing or buzzing in the ear, blurred vision and muscle pain.</p><p>Patients completed quality-of-life surveys in which women reported higher levels of fatigue than men, leading to a decrease in daily activities. Women also reported experiencing more non-neurologic symptoms than men like shortness of breath, chest pain and dysautonomia, or a group of diseases that affect the automatic functions of the body, such as heart rate or digestion, according to the study.
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- <p>New research from Northwestern Medicine showed for the first time that women suffer more severe neurologic symptoms due to long COVID, such as brain fog and numbness, than men.</p><p>The research, published Tuesday in the <a class="Link" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acn3.70468" target="_blank" ><u>Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology</u></a>, also found that women with long COVID experienced worse impacts on their quality of life and cognitive functioning than men.</p><p>The research is based on evaluations of 2,329 patients who sought care at Northwestern’s COVID clinic during a five-year period starting in May 2020 through last August. Women reported experiencing more neurologic symptoms than men about 16 months, on average, from when the symptoms first started, according to the journal article.
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