Excess weight, including overweight and obesity, is linked with experiencing Long COVID neurological symptoms including headaches, vertigo, sleep problems and depression, per meta-analysis of studies
Excess weight, including overweight and obesity, is linked with experiencing Long Covid neurological symptoms including headaches, vertigo, sleep problems and depression, per meta-analysis of studies comprising almost 140,000 total participants
Article URL: https://plos.io/4lNLY2G
Article title: Excess weight is associated with neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms in post-COVID-19 condition: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Author countries: Brazil, Australia, China
Funding: This research received a grant from the Research Support Program at the Superior School of Health Sciences, Brasília, Brazil, funded by the Health Sciences Teaching and Research Foundation (Grant and Acceptance Term No. 5/2020 – FEPECS/DE) (DBR). This study was also partially financed by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brasil – Finance Code 001 (DBR). MS is supported by the Western Australian Future Health Research and Innovation Fund (Grant ID WANMA/Ideas2023-24/10). KMBC is supported by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development CNPq (Grant n. 302740/2022-8). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Article URL: https://plos.io/4lNLY2G
Article title: Excess weight is associated with neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms in post-COVID-19 condition: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Author countries: Brazil, Australia, China
Funding: This research received a grant from the Research Support Program at the Superior School of Health Sciences, Brasília, Brazil, funded by the Health Sciences Teaching and Research Foundation (Grant and Acceptance Term No. 5/2020 – FEPECS/DE) (DBR). This study was also partially financed by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brasil – Finance Code 001 (DBR). MS is supported by the Western Australian Future Health Research and Innovation Fund (Grant ID WANMA/Ideas2023-24/10). KMBC is supported by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development CNPq (Grant n. 302740/2022-8). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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