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Long-term sex differences in symptoms and immune profile in long COVID BACKGROUND Long COVID (LC) is a post-infectious condition affecting millions worldwide, characterized by persistent multisystem symptoms. Females are disproportionately affected, reporting higher symptom burden...

Associations between heart rate and physical activity in people with post-COVID-19 condition accounting for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms BACKGROUND Tachycardia after mild activity or during rest is a common complaint among people with post-COVID-19 condition...

Use and Perceived Helpfulness of Different Intervention Strategies in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Depression BACKGROUND Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or depression both frequently report debilitating exhaustion, yet the two...

Healthcare Consumption and Work Absenteeism of Individuals With and Without Persistent Complaints After COVID-19: The Role of Cognitive-Behavioural Factors, Neuropsychological Functioning and Depressive Symptoms BACKGROUND To compare healthcare consumption and work absenteeism of individuals...

Sleep loss induces cholesterol-associated myelin dysfunction The increasing prevalence of sleep deprivation poses a public health challenge in modern society. Manifestations of reduced alertness, such as slowed reaction times and increased errors, are well-documented behavioral indicators of...

I think you probably could. FDG-PET can show avidity in peripheral nerves affected by things like CIDP, chemotherapy. Dedicated tracers can also look for specific things that will light up even in smaller structures. Eg I see Imaging peripheral nerve injury with demyelination PET tracer...

Preprint at Mass-Standardised IgG Response to Fourteen SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein variants and Antibody Subclass analysis for IgG subclasses and IgE for a Long COVID Patient Cohort (2026)

Thread for the company at Exeter firm excited over long Covid test success [BBC News].

Mass-Standardised IgG Response to Fourteen SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein variants and Antibody Subclass analysis for IgG subclasses and IgE for a Long COVID Patient Cohort A multivariant total subclass analysis has been performed for a control cohort (n=15) and a long COVID patient cohort (n=15)...

Google found this Reddit post from 3 years ago made by the interviewer on this video (3 hours!). He's described as an autodidact. It looks as if he left university with a Bachelors and went to work for Microsoft Research, subsequently head-hunted to xAI by Musk. I would assume he has nothing...

Showing failure to appropriately decrease MASP-2 levels as occurred in HCs post exercise. The HCs dropped at 1 hour and had returned to normal levels by 6 hours while ME maintained levels post exercise. Which is reminiscent of the "flat" findings in the Hanson urine metabolomics study.

See also Activation of the Lectin Pathway Drives Persistent Complement Dysregulation in Long COVID (2026)

Follow-up on same samples looking at MASP-2 Activation of the Lectin Pathway Drives Persistent Complement Dysregulation in Long COVID (2026) —

Follow on from Complement dysregulation is a prevalent and therapeutically amenable feature of long COVID (2024)

Activation of the Lectin Pathway Drives Persistent Complement Dysregulation in Long COVID Long COVID affects a substantial proportion of survivors of acute infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), who suffer a variety of symptoms that limit their...

:rolleyes: (And aliens! Don't forget aliens and their darned anal probes. Those'll get you in the bodymind every time.) Writes somebody who is clearly clueless about medicine.

Some open access normative data across age ranges if we want to look further into this. Normative Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Metrics of Macular Vessel Density and Foveal Avascular Zone in Healthy Children (2025, Journal of Clinical Medicine) OCTA biomarkers in adults aged 50 and...

Long-term retinal dysfunction following COVID-19 infection: a one-year prospective observational study Mou, Kefan; Gao, Yuzhu; Zhang, Yifan; Man, Shulei; Chen, Qing; Xu, Hanyue; Chen, Yi; Zhang, Ming BACKGROUND COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, may lead to long-term retinal changes. Visual...

Some top-line quotes — (See thread Establishing Clinically Relevant Severity Levels for the Central Sensitization Inventory)