{"id":32246,"date":"2021-08-05T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=32246"},"modified":"2021-08-05T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T09:30:57","slug":"research-cfs-an-emerging-sequela-in-covid-19-survivors-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/research-cfs-an-emerging-sequela-in-covid-19-survivors-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: CFS: an emerging sequela in COVID-19 survivors? (Italy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13365-021-01002-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chronic fatigue syndrome: An emerging sequela in COVID-19 survivors?<\/a>, by Elisa Mantovani, Sara Mariotto, Daniele Gabbiani, Gianluigi Dorelli, Silvia Bozzetti, Angela Federico, Serena Zanzoni, Domenico Girelli, Ernesto Crisafulli, Sergio Ferrari, Stefano Tamburin <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span>\u00a0<em>Journal of NeuroVirology A<\/em>ugust 2, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>SARS-CoV-2 survivors may report persistent symptoms that resemble myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS).<\/p>\n<p>We explored\u00a0(a) ME\/CFS-like symptom prevalence and (b) whether axonal, inflammatory, and\/or lung changes may contribute to ME\/CFS-like symptoms in SARS-CoV-2 survivors through clinical, neuropsychiatric, neuropsychological, lung function assessment, and serum neurofilament light chain, an axonal damage biomarker.<\/p>\n<p>ME\/CFS-like features were found in 27% of our sample.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32283 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Italian-research.jpg?resize=714%2C483&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"483\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Italian-research.jpg?w=714&amp;ssl=1 714w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Italian-research.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Italian-research.jpg?resize=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 714px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 714\/483;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ME\/CFS-like group showed worse sleep quality, fatigue, pain, depressive symptoms, subjective cognitive complaints, Borg baseline<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shortness_of_breath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> dyspnea<\/a> of the 6-min walking test vs. those without ME\/CFS-like symptoms. These preliminary findings raise concern on a possible future ME\/CFS-like pandemic in SARS-CoV-2 survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic fatigue syndrome: An emerging sequela in COVID-19 survivors?, by Elisa Mantovani, Sara Mariotto, Daniele Gabbiani, Gianluigi Dorelli, Silvia Bozzetti, Angela Federico, Serena Zanzoni, Domenico Girelli, Ernesto Crisafulli, Sergio Ferrari, Stefano Tamburin in\u00a0Journal of NeuroVirology August 2, 2021 &nbsp; Research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/research-cfs-an-emerging-sequela-in-covid-19-survivors-italy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6935,5684,6939,6934,6941,6933,6938,6782,6940,6936,6932,6930,6937,6931],"class_list":["post-32246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-angela-federico","tag-covid-19","tag-daniele-gabbiani","tag-domenico-girelli","tag-elisa-mantovani","tag-ernesto-crisafulli","tag-gianluigi-dorelli","tag-post-viral-illness","tag-sara-mariotto","tag-serena-zanzoni","tag-sergio-ferrari","tag-shortness-of-breath","tag-silvia-bozzetti","tag-stefano-tamburin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-8o6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32284,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions\/32284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}