{"id":6005,"date":"2024-03-05T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:02:02","slug":"covid-19-tied-to-increased-risk-for-rheumatic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/05\/covid-19-tied-to-increased-risk-for-rheumatic-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Tied to Increased Risk for Rheumatic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/rheumatology\/generalrheumatology\/109000?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2024-03-05&amp;eun=g1462072d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_030524&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">MedPageToday<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rates of new-onset autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease (AIRD) such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus were significantly increased following bouts of COVID-19 in South Korea and Japan, researchers found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With data from large repositories in the two countries, AIRD rates were 25% higher in South Korea (95% CI 18-31) and 79% greater in Japan (95% CI 77-82) among COVID-19 patients versus uninfected controls from the general population, according to Dong Keon Yon, MD, PhD, of Kyung Hee University in Seoul, and colleagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Absolute rates after COVID were 1.15% in Korea and 3.87% in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 reduced the likelihood of developing AIRD following breakthrough infection, except when those infections became severe, the researchers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/M23-1831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported in\u00a0<em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a>. In fact, severity of COVID-19 increased AIRD risks across the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yon and colleagues stopped short of calling AIRD a form of &#8220;long COVID,&#8221; in which fatigue, malaise, and respiratory symptoms typically predominate. What they did conclude was that AIRD appears to qualify as a long-term COVID-19 complication: AIRD development rates remained strongly elevated in both countries up to a year after infection, and beyond that in the Japanese data (HR 1.57 vs general population, 95% CI 1.50-1.64) though not in Korea.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Rates of new-onset autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease (AIRD) such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus were significantly increased following bouts of COVID-19 in South Korea and Japan, researchers found. With data from large repositories in the two countries, AIRD rates were 25% higher in South Korea (95% CI 18-31) and 79% greater in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6008,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions\/6008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}