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===<span id="long-COVID">Long COVID</span>=== '''Is Long Covid a new type of chronic fatigue syndrome?'''<br> Health organisations across the world are rushing to prepare for a wave of debilitating post-Covid-19 illness that we know little about.<ref name="rnz">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/456714/is-long-covid-a-new-type-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome | title = Is Long Covid a new type of chronic fatigue syndrome?|last = Hall|first = Michael | authorlink= | date = 2021-11-27 | website = RNZ|language=en-nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref><br> ''RNZ'' By: Michael Hall. (November 27, 2021) "Research in New Zealand into the post-viral condition known as Long Covid is now being carried out.<br> It is building on key insights from studies of another disease - Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) - once maligned and often still neglected by the medical establishment.<br> ME/CFS has striking similarities to Long Covid in terms of symptoms and the demographic it affects.<br> Some experts are postulating Long Covid could be a sub-type of ME/CFS."<br> Those leading research into Long Covid here are looking to see if this is the case, while probing for a possible intervention to arrest the course of the disease." "[[Warren Tate|Tate]], a biomedical scientist... calls Long Covid the 'sister disease' of ME/CFS, sharing core symptoms. He says the main difference between the two is ME/CFS can be caused by several viruses, including Epstein Barr and Glandular Fever, and also by non-viral sources like trauma and agricultural chemicals, whereas what we call Long Covid is caused by just one pandemic virus, Sars-CoV-2. Long Covid also includes unique symptoms particular to the effects of Covid-19, including hypercoagulation, a condition that causes blood to clot more easily." '''The lasting misery of coronavirus long-haulers'''<br> Months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, some people are still battling crushing fatigue, lung damage and other symptoms of ‘long COVID’.<ref name="nature-17Sep">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6 | website = Nature | date = 2020-09-17|access-date=2020-09-23| title = The lasting misery of coronavirus long-haulers.<br >Months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, some people are still battling crushing fatigue, lung damage and other symptoms of ‘long COVID’. | last =Marshall|first = Michael}}</ref> ''Nature'' By: Clare Wilson. (September 17, 2020) Conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome have been linked to viral infections, so it’s possible that the covid-19 virus may go on to trigger similar conditions. '''Women aged 50-60 at greatest risk of ‘long Covid’, experts suggest'''<br /> Study links age and number of symptoms to lasting health problems from coronavirus<ref name="guardian21Oct2020">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/21/women-aged-50-60-at-greatest-risk-of-long-covid-experts-suggest | title = Women aged 50-60 at greatest risk of ‘long Covid’, experts suggest | date = 2020-10-21 | website = The Guardian|last = Geddes | first = Linda}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' By: Linda Geddes. (October 21, 2020) "Women aged 50-60 are at greatest risk of developing “long Covid”, analysis suggests. Older age and experiencing five or more symptoms within the first week of illness were also associated with a heightened risk of lasting health problems." "For women in the 50-60 age bracket, these two risk factors appeared to combine: They were eight times more likely to experience lasting symptoms of Covid-19 compared with 18- to 30-year-olds. However, the greatest difference between men and women was seen among those aged between 40 and 50, where women’s risk of developing long Covid was double that of men’s. “This is a similar pattern to what you see in autoimmune diseases,” said Spector. “Things like rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease and lupus are two to three times more common in women until just before menopause, and then it becomes more similar.” His guess is that gender differences in the way the immune system responds to coronavirus may account for this difference."
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