Musculoskeletal Pain During Long COVID: Are There Gender or Racial-Ethnic Differences?

In this study, adult patients ( ≥18 years) were identified through an electronic health record as having a positive PCR COVID test and completed a questionnaire to ascertain symptoms after their acute phase of COVID-19 (i.e., long COVID). Of 507 participants with complete data, 46% (n=231) reported musculoskeletal pain. Chi-squa re tests found no differences in long COVID pain by gender (150/303 [50%] women vs.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Source Type: research