Commonalities found between COVID-19 and Rheumatoid Arthritis could help development of new treatment strategies for Long Covid.
The observations from the study – published in JCI Insight and led by the University of Glasgow’s Research into Inflammatory Arthritis Centre (RACE) in collaboration with the Fondazione A.Gemelli IRCCS in Italy – could help development of new treatment strategies for severe COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 syndrome, or Long Covid.
The researchers observed that some rheumatoid arthritis patients who became infected with SARS-CoV-2 had ‘flares’ of joint pain and inflammation, which hinted at similarities between COVID-19 and rheumatoid arthritis.
In the study, researchers identified …
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