An international team of researchers from 16 countries has established a genetic link between a certain gene variant and long-term symptoms after the Covid-19. It is a section of a genome located near the Foxp4 gene that affects the function of the lungs. About it reports Medicalxpress with reference to the post in the journal Nature Genetics .
What did the researchers reveal?
According to the study, the carriers of a certain gene variant have approximately 60% higher risk of developing prolonged COVID-19. The most common symptoms are shortness of breath, chronic fatigue and cognitive disorders that can last months after the disease.
"Our results indicate that the impaired function of the lungs plays a key role in the development of post -core syndrome," - explained the co -author of the study, Hugo Zeberg from the Carolinsky Institute in Sweden.
The analysis has covered more than 6450 patients with symptoms of prolonged COVID-19 and more than a million people in the control group. To confirm the conclusions, scientists also conducted an independent re -study in another 9,500 cases.
Why do you need it?
The leader of the study Hanna Ollila from Helsinki University emphasized that genetics helps to understand more deeply diseases whose mechanisms have not yet been well studied.
"This data can be the key to future diagnosis, early detection and individual approach to patients with a risk of prolonged COVID-19," she said.
The research provides a new direction in the development of methods of treatment of post-core syndrome and once again proves that even after the pandemic Sars-COV-2 remains a topic of scientific search and an urgent challenge for world medicine.
