Health care providers are learning critical new information to help improve care for patients with long COVID, thanks to a pair of recent studies out of the Post-COVID-19 Program at UT Health Austin, the clinical practice of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the past several months, UT researchers have edged closer to defining the pattern of symptoms it generates and how it affects patients, as well as developing methods to differentiate patients suffering from long COVID versus other conditions.
While consensus around the clinical definition is evolving, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines long COVID as symptoms and conditions of COVID-19 that linger for weeks, months or even years after a person's initial infection. Even people who had no symptoms when they were infected can develop symptoms later.
"These research efforts are instrumental for both clinicians and health systems in grasping the complexities of long COVID, and as part of providing the highest possible care for patients," said W. Michael Brode, M.D., medical director of the Post-COVID-19 Program.
Brode highlighted that long COVID, which occurs in approximately 10% of COVID-19 cases, remains a challenge.
by University of Texas at Austin
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