![]() ![]() 2 Symptoms of long-COVID are diverse and can include any organ system in the body. Does an elevated blood viscosity predispose an individual infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus to more severe infection and poorer outcome? Does the SARS-CoV-2 virus, itself, increase blood viscosity? Can optimizing blood viscosity be helpful in improving outcomes and decreasing the duration of illness? Or are they simply coincidental? More recently, a colleague speculated that the phenomenon known as “long COVID” may also have a relationship to blood viscosity.Īccording to a large retrospective study of 273,618 COVID-19 survivors by Oxford University, long-COVID occurs in more than one-third of patients. Back in what is now the early days of the pandemic, reports started to surface of a symptom that at the time was being referred to as “COVID toes.” That, along with other reports of microcirculatory impairment and thrombotic microangiopathy, 1 led me to wonder about the relationship between blood viscosity and COVID-19 infection. ![]()
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