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When it comes to elderly adults, about 22 in every 10,000 are hospitalized with the virus each year—particularly seniors with cardiovascular disease, according to a 2013 article in the journal ...
The initial diagnosis was "peripheral neuropathy, cause of limb pain and redness to be determined". The lumbar puncture performed on the same day yielded normal results. The next day, a neurology consultation ruled out autoimmune diseases, poisoning, and metabolic diseases. PUMCH treated her according to the diagnosis of Guillain-Barré ...
In a 25 March 2021 interview, Marrero said that initial symptoms are often nonspecific, making a diagnosis challenging. He listed symptoms such as "behavioral changes, sleep disturbances, unexplained pain, visual hallucinations, coordination problems, unexplained hair loss, involuntary muscle twitching, formication (a sensation that feels like small insects crawling under the skin), ataxia ...
Chronic, non-communicable diseases account for an estimated 80% of total deaths and 70% of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in China. Cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are the leading causes of both death and of the burden of disease, and exposure to risk factors is high: more than 300 million men smoke cigarettes and 160 million adults are ...
The complication, currently known as pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome, resembles Kawasaki disease and seems to affect the heart, but lacks the typical COVID-19 symptoms of a cough and ...
The infectious disease community is closely watching a surge of mystery illnesses in China that many have compared to the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Similarly, in illnesses where long diagnostic delays are common (e.g., certain types of autoimmune disease and other rare illnesses), the patients' symptoms are classifiable as MUPS right up until the point where a formal diagnosis is made (which, in some instances, can take upwards of five years). Even when a person has received a confirmed ...
On 13 November, authorities from China's National Health Commission reported an increase in respiratory diseases. The increase in these diseases was attributed to the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions earlier in the year, and the circulation of known pathogens including influenza, mycoplasma pneumoniae (a common bacterial infection typically affecting young children), respiratory syncytial ...