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Autoimmune responses play a significant role in long Covid--research study
Wed, 2022-09-28 09:52 — mike kraft Mounting evidence shows autoimmune responses play a significant role in long Covid Recent research suggests people with long Covid are more likely to have markers of autoimmune disease in their blood a year after infection. NBC News
Disease experts say it has become increasingly clear that an autoimmune response, in which antibodies attack the body’s own healthy cells and tissue, plays an important role in some long-Covid cases.
The latest evidence for this came in a study published last week in the European Respiratory Journal. It found that people who had long-lasting Covid symptoms were more likely to have markers of autoimmune disease in their blood than people who'd recovered quickly from the coronavirus or had never gotten infected.
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