The excessive production of proinflammatory cytokines may drive the symptoms of long COVID due to a genetic predisposition toward an inability to completely clear the virus, according to a review published in Allergy and Asthma Proceedings.
This model could be used to improve diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, Danilo Buonsenso, MD, of the department of woman and child health and public health at Fondazione Policlinico Universitaro A. Gemelli Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico in Rome, and colleagues wrote.
The researchers reviewed literature about long COVID published in