Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Frallonardo, FV Segala, KD Chhaganlal… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Long COVID, also known as “post-acute sequelae of COVID-19,” affects at least 65 million
individuals worldwide with a wide spectrum of symptoms that may last weeks, months, or …

SARS‐CoV‐2 induces blood‐brain barrier and choroid plexus barrier impairments and vascular inflammation in mice

H Qiao, X Deng, L Qiu, Y Qu, Y Chiu… - Journal of medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has led to more than 700 million
confirmed cases and nearly 7 million deaths. Although severe acute respiratory syndrome …

The Silent Syndrome of Long COVID and Gaps in Scientific Knowledge: A Narrative Review

R da Silva, ACR Vallinoto, EJM Dos Santos - Viruses, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
COVID-19 is still a major public health concern, mainly due to the persistence of symptoms
or the appearance of new symptoms. To date, more than 200 symptoms of long COVID (LC) …

Chronic post-COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms persisting beyond one year from infection: a case-control study and network analysis

SWH Chau, TM Chue, RNY Chan, YL Lai… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Our study aims to delineate the phenotypes of chronic neuropsychiatric symptoms among
adult subjects recovering from their first COVID that occurred more than one year ago. We …

Factors affecting the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on post COVID-19 conditions among adults: A Systematic Literature Review

AE Rudolph, N Al Akoury, N Bogdanenko, K Markus… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Importance Existing systematic literature reviews (SLRs) on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness
(VE) against post-COVID-19 conditions (PCC) document high heterogeneity across studies …

Tinnitus and COVID-19: effect of infection, vaccination, and the pandemic

Y Tai, N Jain, G Kim, FT Husain - Frontiers in Public Health, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic, which began worldwide around March 2020, has had
an impact on hearing health, specifically tinnitus and hearing loss. Physiologically, COVID …

Course of fatigue among patients previously hospitalised due to COVID-19

I Mazurkiewicz, Ż Chatys-Bogacka… - Neurologia i …, 2023 - journals.viamedica.pl
Introduction. Discrepancies exist regarding the clinical course and prognostic factors for post-
COVID fatigue. Therefore, our aim was to assess the timely course of fatigue and its possible …

Unmasking the long-term effects: unravelling neuropsychiatric and neurological consequences of COVID-19

M Tariq, FNU Mahak, R Kumar, A Kumar… - Annals of Medicine …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only burdened healthcare systems but has also led to a
new emerging medical enigma that is post-COVID-19 syndrome or “long COVID.” …

Post-COVID-19 conditions and health effects in Africa: a sco** review

EW Ansah, PK Salu, MS Daanko, DN Banaaleh… - BMJ open, 2025 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused global devastations in social,
economic and health systems of every nation, but disproportionately of nations in Africa. In …