{"id":690,"date":"2022-10-04T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=690"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:14","slug":"long-covid-scientists-find-20-blood-protein-signatures-that-may-point-to-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/04\/long-covid-scientists-find-20-blood-protein-signatures-that-may-point-to-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID: Scientists find 20 blood protein &#8216;signatures&#8217; that may point to risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/long-covid-scientists-find-20-blood-protein-signatures-that-may-point-to-risk?utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=MNT%20Daily%20News&amp;utm_content=2022-10-04&amp;apid=36577181&amp;rvid=d95de113bcf9a23f7049bf2bb1aefebfd2b688726e2707d3d192d32ef9e68ec2\">Med News Today<\/a> &#8211; Researchers published their findings comparing blood samples from healthcare workers who had contracted SARS-CoV-2 and healthcare workers who had not. They found that blood protein levels within six weeks of contracting SARS-CoV-2 could predict long COVID incidence. \u201cThese changes in the blood that we observe shortly after infection indicate how the person\u2019s immune system has handled the infection and may indicate a predisposition to developing persistent symptoms,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/child-health\/research\/genetics-and-genomic-medicine\/inborn-errors-metabolism\/dr-wendy-heywood\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Wendy Heywood<\/a>, senior research associate at University College London (UCL) Biological Mass Spectrometry Centre (BMSC), one of the study\u2019s senior authors, told\u00a0<em>Medical News Today.<\/em> The study, led by University College London researchers, was published in <em>eBioMedicineTrusted Source<\/em>, a part of The Lancet Discovery Science.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"GkLK Ff  f Z f\">GkLK Ff  f Z f<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Med News Today &#8211; Researchers published their findings comparing blood samples from healthcare workers who had contracted SARS-CoV-2 and healthcare workers who had not. They found that blood protein levels within six weeks of contracting SARS-CoV-2 could predict long COVID incidence. \u201cThese changes in the blood that we observe shortly after infection indicate how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-long-covid","category-science-and-tech"],"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\/690","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}