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Editor, Senior Moderator
Nat Immunol
. 2024 Apr;25(4):607-621.
doi: 10.1038/s41590-024-01778-0. Epub 2024 Apr 8. Large-scale phenotyping of patients with long COVID post-hospitalization reveals mechanistic subtypes of disease
Felicity Liew[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Claudia Efstathiou[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sara Fontanella[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Matthew Richardson[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ruth Saunders[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Dawid Swieboda[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jasmin K Sidhu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Stephanie Ascough[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shona C Moore[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Noura Mohamed[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Jose Nunag[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Clara King[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Olivia C Leavy[SUP] 2 6 [/SUP], Omer Elneima[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hamish J C McAuley[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Aarti Shikotra[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Amisha Singapuri[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Marco Sereno[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Victoria C Harris[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Linzy Houchen-Wolloff[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Neil J Greening[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Nazir I Lone[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Matthew Thorpe[SUP] 10 [/SUP], A A Roger Thompson[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Sarah L Rowland-Jones[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Annemarie B Docherty[SUP] 10 [/SUP], James D Chalmers[SUP] 12 [/SUP], Ling-Pei Ho[SUP] 13 [/SUP], Alexander Horsley[SUP] 14 [/SUP], Betty Raman[SUP] 15 [/SUP], Krisnah Poinasamy[SUP] 16 [/SUP], Michael Marks[SUP] 17 18 19 [/SUP], Onn Min Kon[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Luke S Howard[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Daniel G Wootton[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jennifer K Quint[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Thushan I de Silva[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Antonia Ho[SUP] 20 [/SUP], Christopher Chiu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ewen M Harrison[SUP] 10 [/SUP], William Greenhalf[SUP] 21 [/SUP], J Kenneth Baillie[SUP] 10 22 23 [/SUP], Malcolm G Semple[SUP] 3 24 [/SUP], Lance Turtle[SUP] 3 24 [/SUP], Rachael A Evans[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Louise V Wain[SUP] 2 6 [/SUP], Christopher Brightling[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ryan S Thwaites[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 25 [/SUP], Peter J M Openshaw[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 26 [/SUP]; PHOSP-COVID collaborative group; ISARIC investigators
Collaborators, Affiliations
One in ten severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections result in prolonged symptoms termed long coronavirus disease (COVID), yet disease phenotypes and mechanisms are poorly understood[SUP]1[/SUP]. Here we profiled 368 plasma proteins in 657 participants ≥3 months following hospitalization. Of these, 426 had at least one long COVID symptom and 233 had fully recovered. Elevated markers of myeloid inflammation and complement activation were associated with long COVID. IL-1R2, MATN2 and COLEC12 were associated with cardiorespiratory symptoms, fatigue and anxiety/depression; MATN2, CSF3 and C1QA were elevated in gastrointestinal symptoms and C1QA was elevated in cognitive impairment. Additional markers of alterations in nerve tissue repair (SPON-1 and NFASC) were elevated in those with cognitive impairment and SCG3, suggestive of brain-gut axis disturbance, was elevated in gastrointestinal symptoms. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) was persistently elevated in some individuals with long COVID, but virus was not detected in sputum. Analysis of inflammatory markers in nasal fluids showed no association with symptoms. Our study aimed to understand inflammatory processes that underlie long COVID and was not designed for biomarker discovery. Our findings suggest that specific inflammatory pathways related to tissue damage are implicated in subtypes of long COVID, which might be targeted in future therapeutic trials.
. 2024 Apr;25(4):607-621.
doi: 10.1038/s41590-024-01778-0. Epub 2024 Apr 8. Large-scale phenotyping of patients with long COVID post-hospitalization reveals mechanistic subtypes of disease
Felicity Liew[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Claudia Efstathiou[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sara Fontanella[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Matthew Richardson[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ruth Saunders[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Dawid Swieboda[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jasmin K Sidhu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Stephanie Ascough[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shona C Moore[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Noura Mohamed[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Jose Nunag[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Clara King[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Olivia C Leavy[SUP] 2 6 [/SUP], Omer Elneima[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hamish J C McAuley[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Aarti Shikotra[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Amisha Singapuri[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Marco Sereno[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Victoria C Harris[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Linzy Houchen-Wolloff[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Neil J Greening[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Nazir I Lone[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Matthew Thorpe[SUP] 10 [/SUP], A A Roger Thompson[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Sarah L Rowland-Jones[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Annemarie B Docherty[SUP] 10 [/SUP], James D Chalmers[SUP] 12 [/SUP], Ling-Pei Ho[SUP] 13 [/SUP], Alexander Horsley[SUP] 14 [/SUP], Betty Raman[SUP] 15 [/SUP], Krisnah Poinasamy[SUP] 16 [/SUP], Michael Marks[SUP] 17 18 19 [/SUP], Onn Min Kon[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Luke S Howard[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Daniel G Wootton[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Jennifer K Quint[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Thushan I de Silva[SUP] 11 [/SUP], Antonia Ho[SUP] 20 [/SUP], Christopher Chiu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ewen M Harrison[SUP] 10 [/SUP], William Greenhalf[SUP] 21 [/SUP], J Kenneth Baillie[SUP] 10 22 23 [/SUP], Malcolm G Semple[SUP] 3 24 [/SUP], Lance Turtle[SUP] 3 24 [/SUP], Rachael A Evans[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Louise V Wain[SUP] 2 6 [/SUP], Christopher Brightling[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ryan S Thwaites[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 25 [/SUP], Peter J M Openshaw[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 26 [/SUP]; PHOSP-COVID collaborative group; ISARIC investigators
Collaborators, Affiliations
- PMID: 38589621
- DOI: 10.1038/s41590-024-01778-0
One in ten severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections result in prolonged symptoms termed long coronavirus disease (COVID), yet disease phenotypes and mechanisms are poorly understood[SUP]1[/SUP]. Here we profiled 368 plasma proteins in 657 participants ≥3 months following hospitalization. Of these, 426 had at least one long COVID symptom and 233 had fully recovered. Elevated markers of myeloid inflammation and complement activation were associated with long COVID. IL-1R2, MATN2 and COLEC12 were associated with cardiorespiratory symptoms, fatigue and anxiety/depression; MATN2, CSF3 and C1QA were elevated in gastrointestinal symptoms and C1QA was elevated in cognitive impairment. Additional markers of alterations in nerve tissue repair (SPON-1 and NFASC) were elevated in those with cognitive impairment and SCG3, suggestive of brain-gut axis disturbance, was elevated in gastrointestinal symptoms. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) was persistently elevated in some individuals with long COVID, but virus was not detected in sputum. Analysis of inflammatory markers in nasal fluids showed no association with symptoms. Our study aimed to understand inflammatory processes that underlie long COVID and was not designed for biomarker discovery. Our findings suggest that specific inflammatory pathways related to tissue damage are implicated in subtypes of long COVID, which might be targeted in future therapeutic trials.