Age-Related Changes in the Clinical Picture of Long COVID

Mindy Fain, MD, GGP division chief and director of the U of A Center on Aging, is first author on a paper, “Age-related changes in the clinical picture of Long COVID,” published by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. This NIH-funded study on behalf of the RECOVER or Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Consortium evaluated the impact of aging on frequency and prevalent symptoms of Long COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2. Using the RECOVER adult cohort, it found that in assisted living community-dwelling older adults, aging does alter the prevalence and pattern of reported Long COVID. This has key implications in identifying and managing Long COVID in older adults.