Korean scientists have announced new consequences of the coronavirus. According to a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, viral illness can lead to autoimmune diseases.
The team analyzed data from 355 thousand men and women who had previously been diagnosed with COVID-19. This sample was then compared with six million patients who did not have the disease. It turned out that subjects with coronavirus were 12-74 percent more likely to develop various types of alopecia, three times more likely to develop vasculitis, 68 percent more likely to develop Crohn’s disease, and 59 percent more likely to develop sarcoidosis.
Experts suggest that the reason for this is the body’s production of interferons, which cause inflammation. In turn, the inflammatory response can stimulate the formation of autoantibodies against organs, muscles or nerves of the body, especially if the patient has a predisposition to this disease in the first place.
Notably, unvaccinated participants were at greater risk for certain autoimmune diseases, including alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, and Crohn’s disease.
In July, Rospotrebnadzor employee Natalya Pshenichnaya said that coronavirus can provoke the development of pathologies to which the body is initially predisposed.
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2023-10-16 10:49:16
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