Long Covid has three different types and each one has its own list of symptoms, scientists say. The Telegraph reports the condition has long been hard for clinicians to define because of a vast number of wide-ranging symptoms, with recent work claiming there are more than 60 different manifestations of the disease, including hair loss and loss of libido.
Now, a pre-print from academics at King’s College London, using Zoe Covid tracker app data, found there are three different forms of the disease, also known as post-Covid syndrome. The scientists say future research into long Covid “should consider subdividing affected individuals into different subgroups”.
Researchers examined 1,459 people with long Covid, which was defined by the study authors as suffering symptoms for at least 84 days after infection. The study claims there is a neurological arm of long Covid, a respiratory branch and the third form is a diverse range of more severe and wide-ranging symptoms.
