Study in Over 1800 Hospitalized with COVID Shows Increased D-Dimer and Fibrinogen Levels Predicted Who got Long Covid "Brain Fog" Up to One Year Later

Routine ER clotting proteins are usually drawn to check for a blood clot to the lungs and may be an early marker for Long COVID

August 31, 2023 Nature Medicine Article states D-dimer, fibrinogen are markers for Long Covid Brain Fog

by Dr. Maxime Taquet, a Clinical Staff Psychiatrist at the University of Oxford.

I wrote Dr. Taquet on the vaccine status of his patient group, and this is what he answered to my question on whether all patients were unvaccinated:

“Yes, that is correct, all participants to the primary study were recruited early in the pandemic and thus not vaccinated. The replication in the electronic health records network (which showed similar findings) included both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.

There is no plan to do a specific prospective study with vaccinated people form our group, but hopefully other teams have the data that are required to replicate those findings in this context”.

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A Review: Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue

Before Covid, not much was known about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic