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Covid infection does not worsen multiple sclerosis symptoms: Stu
dy
By: Steve Date: December 24, 2024, 2:25 pm
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SUMMARY - Researchers from the University of Texas’s
Southwestern Medical Center in the city of Dallas have released
a study which indicates that a Covid-19 infection does not
worsen symptoms or disability in people with multiple sclerosis
(MS). The study followed 2,132 adults with MS for with an
average age of 65 for over 18 months. Results may differ for
younger people with MS.
LINK -
HTML https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/health/covid-infection-does-not-worsen-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms-study/
HTML https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/health/covid-infection-does-not-worsen-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms-study/
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Re: Covid infection does not worsen multiple sclerosis symptoms:
Study
By: Masked Man Date: December 24, 2024, 11:03 pm
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If each is entitled to their own opinion then
Masked Man Politely Challenges this study:
I wonder about the limitations of this study. I'm a bit wary of
two diseases that both affect the central nervous system...
I'm going to go out on a limb and challenge this study a
little...
To me The way this study is worded is actually hard for me to
accept in the sense that It just seems like if a person that has
MS and then gets covid they are bound to have more overall
symptoms from both diseases. I don't see how that can't be. I
guess none of these MS patients caught long covid..
For the record COVID-19 can affect the nervous system, it can
also affect how the brain sends signals to the muscles of the
body to coordinate movement. Some people with Long COVID have
trouble with coordination (ataxia), loss of movement
(bradykinesia), tremor, or sudden muscle twitching or jerking
(myoclonus).
I'm politely question just this particular study based upon I
think its based on principles that are too subjective to prove.I
don't question its findings so much as I question its message to
the readers. I just think While maybe covid doesn't make MS
worse it certainly doesn't make it better... I don't think
catching covid which is a disease that affects the central
nervous system should be caught by people with MS or without MS
is my message.
I personally don't recommend people catching covid who also
already have MS...
Again the way this study is worded such as "She, however, noted
that the results may differ for younger people" baffles me as to
what that statement means. I just don't know MS symptoms are so
horrible..
..to some people MS is worse than Parkinson's disease but you
can still think
..in some sense the symptoms of MS outweigh covid's symptoms..
There's also Swedish study that says covid may double one's risk
for getting MS.
Anyway for me I'm going to wait and suspend judgement on this
particular study and give it a "time Will tell" and watch more
studies on the subject.
This is just my opinion and I'm not a doctor and have no reason
to disbelieve the study in general or the people in the study
and what they say... If they say they don't feel worse I have no
reason to disbelieve them but I'm just a little skeptical and
look forward to hearing more studies on the subject of covid and
MS.
Don't let my opinions sway anyone else opinions on this study.
Don't dismiss this study on account of my feeble opinions.
...My comment should be considered but mere food for thought
...Each reader must do their own research and use their own free
thinking and reasoning to decide for themselves how they feel or
read a study. I guess I'd like to see a study that included
younger as well in it and I'd definitely mask up and not catch
covid if I had MS and I'd insist nurses and researchers mask up
when they do these studies directly on people with MS as well to
be on the safe side. I'm not a professional but I just
personally don't see how two diseases that both affect the
central nervous system can't cause more symptoms, and more
problems for everybody.
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Re: Covid infection does not worsen multiple sclerosis symptoms:
Study
By: gv_twiitterpated Date: December 24, 2024, 11:41 pm
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There are a few red flags on this one unless I missed something:
- The article did not link to the study (I looked it up, it's
here:
HTML https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000210149)
- The quotes was attributed to "Amber Salter, from the varsity,
and a member of the American Academy of Neurology". Odd
wording, and in line with some other wording oddities in the
write-up.
- Ms. Salter was quoted as speaking in absolutes (“This is good
news for people with MS, that they do not need to worry about
long-term worsening of their MS symptoms after a Covid-19
infection”) -- either she was misquoted, or she is irresponsible
and not an objective researcher. There is no way to credibly
make absolute statements about what is still a novel virus.
- The study's methodology was an experimental program for
self-reporting of perceived symptoms by patients; additionally,
whether or not a patient was infected with Covid during the
study or ever had Covid was also a matter of self-reporting. No
nucleocapsid testing was done to confirm or rule-out instances
of asymptomatic infections amongst any of the participants.
- Much of the language in the study's write-up was... odd, for a
neuro study in particular. Less formal than is typical, and not
in a reader-comprehension way -- more an eliding-over-details
way. Which may mean nothing, could just be the authors' style,
but it was unusual.
- More than one of the study's authors had significant potential
conflicts of interest in their disclosures, primarily financial.
So, I'd call this a curiosity, but definitely not definitive.
This study, published in the same journal in January 2022, is an
excellent example to contrast against the UT Southwestern study:
HTML https://www.neurology.org/doi/full/10.1212/NXI.0000000000001118
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