COVID 'Long Hauler' Study , Reveals Silent Organ Damage.<br />The study was conducted by researchers <br />with the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.<br />It was published in the , 'Journal of the American Society of Nephrology' , on Sept. 1.<br />The study found that significant kidney damage <br />can be detected in those who recover from COVID-19.<br />Compared to those who have not gotten <br />sick with coronavirus, the risk of developing <br />end-stage kidney disease was twice as high.<br />For every 10,000 people who contracted COVID-19, <br />an additional 7.8 people also developed a <br />need for dialysis or kidney transplant.<br />This is not a small number, if you multiply by the huge number of Americans and also globally who might be ending up with end-stage kidney disease. , Ziyad Al-Aly, Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, via 'Bloomberg'.<br />This is really huge, and it will literally shape our lives for probably the next decade <br />or more, Ziyad Al-Aly, Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, via 'Bloomberg'.<br />Researchers describe the particular difficulties in both treating and diagnosing kidney disease.<br />What’s really problematic about kidney disease is that it’s really silent, that it doesn’t really manifest in pain or any <br />other symptoms, Ziyad Al-Aly, Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, via 'Bloomberg'.<br />Researchers discovered a 23 percent increase of acute kidney injury in those who were <br />not hospitalized for COVID-19.<br />Acute kidney injury hampers the function of the organ, which plays a vital role in filtering toxins from the blood.<br />If this is really happening at a wider scale, it’s just a matter of time before we see all of these people hitting the clinics, needing dialysis, .., Ziyad Al-Aly, Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, via 'Bloomberg'.<br />... needing transplantation that places a lot of burden on the patient himself or herself, and really is very costly to the health care system, Ziyad Al-Aly, Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, via 'Bloomberg'
