🧵 Medscape article:
"New Five-Type Index Provides Doctors Guide for Long COVID"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-five-type-index-provides-doctors-guide-long-covid-2025a10004gd
"A new analysis of long COVID patients has identified five distinct subtypes that researchers say will help […]
"New Five-Type Index Provides Doctors Guide for Long COVID"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-five-type-index-provides-doctors-guide-long-covid-2025a10004gd
"A new analysis of long COVID patients has identified five distinct subtypes that researchers say will help […]
Comments
At first I thought they'd put all the patients with PEM (post-exertional malaise) into one subtype.
But when I looked at the chart showing symptoms (see attached image) there were high levels of PEM (94, 99, 99 or […] https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/114048893760759222
But it seems like this data also emphasies that regardless of subtype most Long Covid patients need to pace themselves and avoid exertion as much as possible. Difficult to do […]
Interesting!
I also have not read the full paper (hard to absorb, have to wait for a day when my brain is working a bit better) but that row showing how many Long COVID patients have PEM really jumped out at me.