People with hypermobility may be more prone to prolonged COVID-19 – scientists

People with joint hypermobility syndrome are more likely to have a longer course of illness from COVID-19 and experience constant fatigue.

Research, the results of which published in the journal BMJ Public Health, confirmed that patients with this syndrome were significantly more likely to suffer from fatigue than those with normal joint range of motion, writes The Guardian.

Hypermobility often called “loose joint” or “double joint” syndrome. People with this diagnosis have particularly flexible joints and are able to turn their limbs into unusual positions.

Scientists at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and King’s College in the UK investigated the potential link between joint hypermobility, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia (a condition that causes pain throughout the body) at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

They analyzed the course of the coronavirus infection in 3,064 people and found that people with more flexible joints were about 30% more likely to complain that they had not fully recovered from COVID-19.

Scientists also found that patients with joint hypermobility suffered from fatigue more often than others.

People with hypermobility joints usually have postural tachycardia syndrome – a condition where the heart rate increases very quickly after a person gets up from a sitting or lying position.

Also, joint hypermobility can be associated, in particular, with the disorder autistic spectrum and diseases such as multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia – a syndrome that causes pain in the muscles and joints.

Since these diseases can cause a feeling of fatigue, it cannot be definitively stated that hypermobility of the joints during SARS-CoV-2 infection had an effect on this, say scientists.

“Research suggests that people with long-term COVID-19 are likely to be ‘hypermobile.’

This is important to discover because perhaps drugs that help people with hypermobility and pain to strengthen and maintain muscles can help everyone.”Jessica Eccles said.

It is noted that about 20% of adults in the world are hypermobile.

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