A new UCLA study sought to better understand long COVID by seeking a single definition. The researchers found that the description of long COVID differs by case. The results are reported in a release.
Upon analyzing 4,700 cases from the INSPIRE cohort using “five published long COVID definitions from studies conducted in the US, U.K., Netherlands, Sweden, and Puerto Rico,” disease incidence varied nearly 30% in the same patients. The definitions used depended on the symptoms each patient was experiencing and how long.
The study authors call for a test “or uniform standard” for diagnosing long COVID to avoid misdiagnosis.
