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UCLA Study Shows Varying Definitions Make Long COVID Harder to Diagnose and Treat

UCLA researchers found that varying long COVID definitions cause prevalence estimates to range from 15% to 42%, complicating patient care and research consistency.

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What is Long COVID? Despite hundreds of published studies and millions affected worldwide, the medical field still lacks a clear answer.

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Doctors and researchers now agree on one thing: long Covid exists. But opinions differ widely on what it is exactly. A tangle of definitions is causing confusion. So it's high time to delve deeper into this topic. New research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) […] Want more science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl .

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The lack of a uniform definition of long Covid significantly hinders research into the disease, according to a new study that examined research published in five different regions, IFL Science reported.

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