news-medical.net/news/20211...
This just appeared in my Inbox - thought people would be interested in the risk identified for patients on steroids. And it sounds as if it might be a poke to get them to look more closely at us in relation to Covid - where else will they find such a cohort of rheumatic disease and pred!!!
Reinforces my intention to continue as I have for the last 2 years - has served me well so far
On the same page is a link to this:
news-medical.net/news/20220...
where they found existing autoimmune disease increases the risk of Long Covid:
"The frequency of pre-COVID autoimmunity and asthma in the current cohort was far higher than the overall US population, suggesting the potential that these medical disorders might be risk factors for PASC development."
(... a condition known as post-acute sequelae of COVID 2019 (COVID-19) (PASC), or long COVID. Even though PASC is not widely described, it is most commonly defined as COVID-19 symptoms that continue longer than 30 days.)