Coronavirus: PAS Advice - PA Diagnosis Does Not Fulfil High Risk Criteria. Follow Current NHS and Government Guidance - Links Here

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Hi All

We are getting an increasing number of posts about coronavirus and questions about whether those with PA are in the high risk category.

The PAS have issued the following advice...

As far as we know patients with the diagnosis PA do not fulfil the criteria of high risk. PA is an autoimmune disease but just because there are antibodies against gastric Intrinsic Factor, this does not mean that those with PA are more prone to infections unless they use medication that interferes with their immune system such as prednisilone, imuran or immunemodulating medication or they have a co-existing condition like diabetes, cancer, heart disease (see NHS list for further details).

It is recommended that everyone follows NHS and government advice about reducing the risk of infection.

For those in the U.K., further advice can be found at the following links:

nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir...

Advice about behaviour for those self isolating:

nhs.uk/conditions/coronavir...

Government advice:

gov.uk/government/topical-e...

gov.uk/government/publicati...

NHS and government advice will be updated on an ongoing basis.

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Keep safe all.