ISLAMABAD, Oct. 11 (ONLINE): — After being infected with COVID-19, people have a much higher risk of getting autoimmune and auto inflammatory connective-tissue disorders like alopecia, Chron\u2019s disease, psoriasis and vitiligo, according to new research.<\/p>\n
Vaccination lowers the risk, says the study from South Korea, which was published in JAMA Network Open.<\/p>\n
Researchers looked at information on more than 350,000 COVID-19 patients from between October 2020 and December 2021. They also used a control group of more than 6.1 million people. The average age in both groups was 52. They were split evenly among the sexes.<\/p>\n
\u201cNotably, certain disease risks exhibited a positive association with the severity of COVID-19,\u201d the researchers wrote. “Possible associations of COVID-19 with autoimmune diseases\u2026 have been suggested, because SARS-CoV-2 appears to perturb self-tolerance and trigger autoimmune reactions via cross-reactivity that may lead to the development of autoimmune diseases.\u201d
\nCOVID-19 patients had \u201csignificantly higher risks\u201d of alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody\u2013associated vasculitis, Crohn disease, and sarcoidosis, the University of Minnesota\u2019s CIDRAP reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe risks of alopecia totalis, psoriasis, vitiligo, vasculitis, Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, adult-onset Still disease, Sjogren syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis, and sarcoidosis were associated with increasing COVID-19 severity,\u201d CIDRAP wrote.<\/p>\n
The study\u2019s authors wrote that the findings suggest that autoimmune and autoinflammatory connective tissue disorders may appear after COVID-19 infection, highlighting the potential long-term health effects associated with COVID-19. Long-term management should include evaluating such disorders in patients who had COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Some limitations of the study include the primarily adult population and that the sample entirely comprised Asians, thereby limiting the generalizability of these findings to other ethnic groups and adolescents\/children, News Medical reported. The researchers could not determine whether some individuals were more susceptible to autoimmunity than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 11 (ONLINE): — After being infected with COVID-19, people have a much higher risk of getting autoimmune and auto inflammatory connective-tissue disorders like alopecia, Chron\u2019s disease, psoriasis and vitiligo, according to new research. Vaccination lowers the risk, says the study from South Korea, […]<\/p>\n
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