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New study shows hair loss and lower libido among long Covid symptoms; details here

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But some of the symptoms that were found to be strongly associated with COVID beyond 12 weeks were surprising and less well known, such as hair loss and reduced libido.

As per the study, other symptoms included chest pain, fever, bowel incontinence, erectile dysfunction and limb swelling. The study shows that these differences in symptoms reported between the infected and uninfected groups remained even after we accounted for age, sex, ethnic group, socioeconomic status, body mass index, smoking status, the presence of more than 80 health conditions, and past reporting of the same symptom.

It also found that people who had been diagnosed with COVID were significantly more likely to report 62 symptoms, only 20 of which are included in the WHO’s clinical case definition for long COVID.

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