Health officially defines the concept of persistent covid

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The Carlos III Health Institute has managed to establish an official definition of persistent covid or post-covid syndrome. This was announced by the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias this Wednesday at the press conference after the Interterritorial Health Council, explaining the results of this first phase of research, in which the aim is to determine the symptoms, the improvement in the diagnosis, treatment, as well as rehabilitation after infection.

"The incidence of covid has stabilized and has even Special Data decreased ," Darias began before the media, and stressed the differentiation between. " Thus, the minister communicates that Health has commissioned the Carlos III Institute, through the Consortium of the Center for Biomedical Research in Network or CIBER, the study of " definition of what is understood by persistent covid" .

Darias explained that in this first phase of the study, it has been possible to reach a first operational definition: "The set of multiorgan symptoms not attributable to other causes that last after the acute phase of the infection (by SARS-CoV-2)" .



The report prepared by the CIBER, under the title 'Postcovid syndrome, definition, prevalence and identification of predictors and therapeutic options' , aims to officially define not only the concept of persistent covid, but also its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and recovery processes. rehabilitation after infection. It is expected to reach these conclusions in the next phases of the study. “This first phase has been developed and the following ones will continue to provide more information about the diagnostic process, the possible clinical and biological predictors and the burden of the disease ,” said Darias.


Darias has reported that the results obtained in this first phase of the study have alluded to a series of frequent symptoms that would be attributable to the post-covid syndrome and are of a neurocognitive nature such as memory loss, difficulty concentrating or confusion; also musculoskeletal signs such as joint or muscle pain, or limitation of mobility; and other systemic ones such as fatigue. "A series of symptoms that can be classified as persistent covid ," Darias concluded.