Women are 22% more likely than men to have a mysterious “long covid” and will experience a different set of debilitating symptoms than men, according to a massive study of 1.3 million coronavirus survivors.
Researchers at pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson observed women with long ear, nose and throat problems supporting COVID; mood, neurological, skin, gastrointestinal and rheumatological disorders; and fatigue.
Men with long COVID-19, a syndrome in which complications persist for more than four weeks after the initial COVID-19 infection, sometimes for many months, were more likely to have endocrine disorders such as diabetes and kidney disorders. found the studio. The staff collected samples. at a COVID-19 testing clinic in Bondi Beach. (AP) “Differences in immune system function between women and men could be a major factor in sex differences in long-term COVID syndrome,” the study authors wrote in the peer-reviewed study.
“Women build faster and more robust innate and adaptive immune responses, which can protect them from initial infection and severity.
“However, this same difference may make women more vulnerable to prolonged autoimmune diseases.”
After the first months of the pandemic, the people who developed what is now known as long COVID were also called “long halers.”
Many long-haired carriers complained that their GPs, business owners or family members did not understand or acknowledge the symptoms they were struggling with, months after taking the first effects of the virus.
Online support groups emerged where members affected by persistent effects shared stories about brain fog, breathing problems, stomach problems, fatigue, pain, anxiety, or depression.
A registered nurse at a COVID-19 clinic in Sydney. It is estimated that at least four million Australian adults have contracted coronavirus. (Getty / Lisa Maree Williams)
Assuming more than a third of people will experience long COVID, and the Johnson & Johnson analysis is accurate, 1.4 million Australians may be long carriers, and Australian women with long COVID could reach one million.
When analyzing the early onset of COVID-19, Johnson & Johnson researchers noted that women were “much more likely” to suffer from mood disorders such as depression, hearing symptoms, and nose and throat, musculoskeletal pain and respiratory symptoms.
Male patients, on the other hand, were prone to kidney disorders affecting the kidneys.
According to the latest federal government data, there have been at least 7.7 million cases of coronavirus in Australia since the pandemic began in 2020, reflecting that people who have taken COVID-19 more than once.