Lowered oxygen saturation and increased body temperature in acute COVID-19 largely predict chronic fatigue syndrome and affective symptoms due to Long COVID: A precision nomothetic approach.
Dhurgham Shihab Al-HadrawiHaneen Tahseen Al-RubayeAbbas F AlmullaHussein Kadhem Al-HakeimMichael MaesPublished in: Acta neuropsychiatrica (2022)
The newly constructed endophenotype class and pathway phenotypes indicate that the physio-affective phenome of LC is at least in part the consequence of the pathophysiology of acute COVID-19, namely the combined effects of lowered SpO2, increased body temperature and the associated immune-inflammatory processes and lung lesions.