{"id":7304,"date":"2024-08-13T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2024-08-13T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:49:06","slug":"common-lab-tests-not-useful-in-diagnosing-long-covid-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/13\/common-lab-tests-not-useful-in-diagnosing-long-covid-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Lab Tests Not Useful in Diagnosing Long COVID, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/longcovid\/111477?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-08-12&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202024-08-12&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPageToday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of 25 routine laboratory tests were clinically useful for diagnosing long COVID, despite some slight differences in results between patients with and without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to an analysis of the RECOVER-Adult cohort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among participants with a post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) index of 12 points or higher, there were no meaningful differences in mean laboratory values when compared with those with a PASC index of zero, reported Kristine Erlandson, MD, MSc, of the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, and colleagues in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/M24-0737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"uaJUqNb kzZvJw NJi ahcvu\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday None of 25 routine laboratory tests were clinically useful for diagnosing long COVID, despite some slight differences in results between patients with and without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to an analysis of the RECOVER-Adult cohort. Among participants with a post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) index of 12 points or higher, there were no meaningful [&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-7304","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\/7304","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=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}