Adriana Ladeira de Araújo's research while affiliated with Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo and other places

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Introduction: Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) is characterised by a plethora of symptoms, with fatigue appearing as the most frequently reported. The alterations that drive both the persistent and post-acute disease newly acquired symptoms are not yet fully described. Given the lack of robust knowledge regarding the mechanisms of PCC we have examined...
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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted global research efforts to reduce infection impact, highlighting the potential of cross-disciplinary collaboration to enhance research quality and efficiency. Methods At the FMUSP-HC academic health system, we implemented innovative flow management routines for collecting, organizing and analyzing de...
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The aim of this study was to determine whether Post-acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC) are associated with physical inactivity in COVID-19 survivors. This is a cohort study of COVID-19 survivors discharged from a tertiary hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Patients admitted as inpatients due to laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 between March and...
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Background: Sociodemographic and environmental factors are associated with incidence, severity, and mortality of COVID-19. However, little is known about the role of such factors in persisting symptoms among recovering patients. We designed a cohort study of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors to describe persistent symptoms and identify factors assoc...
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Preliminary methodologically limited studies suggested that taste and smell known as chemosensory impairments and neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated in post-COVID-19. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether chemosensory dysfunction and neuropsychiatric impairments in a well-characterized post-COVID-19 sample. This is a cohort study...
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The aim of this study was to determine whether Post-acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC) are associated with physical inactivity in COVID-19 survivors. This is a cohort study of COVID-19 survivors discharged from a tertiary hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Patients admitted as inpatients due to laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 between March and...
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Background Despite the multitude of clinical manifestations of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), studies applying statistical methods to directly investigate patterns of symptom co-occurrence and their biological correlates are scarce. Methods We assessed 30 symptoms pertaining to different organ systems in 749 adults (age = 55 ±...
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Introduction COVID-19 may lead to persistent and potentially incapacitating clinical manifestations (post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC)). Using easy-to-apply questionnaires and scales (often by telephone interviewing), several studies evaluated samples of COVID-19 inpatients from 4 weeks to several months after discharge. However, s...

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... COVID-19 survivors classified as having prolonged sedentary behavior (i.e., ≥10 h/d) had a 25% higher risk (odds ratio [OR], 1.25; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01-1.55) of developing at least one long-COVID symptom. Gil et al. 8 prospectively followed 614 patients (mean age: 56 [13] y; 53% males) hospitalized with a laboratoryconfirmed diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection for 6 to 11 months. In the multivariable analysis, physically inactive patients (i.e., <150 min/ wk of moderate to vigorous activity) had an over 50% (OR, 1.57; 95% CI, 1.04-2.39) ...
... Un estudio de cohorte realizado en el Hospital das Clínicas de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil (Ferreira et al. 2022), investigó a pacientes positivos para COVID-19 de la primera oleada. Los criterios de selección fueron la supervivencia posterior a la hospitalización por más de seis meses, hospitalización de por lo menos 24 horas, mayores de 18 años y diagnóstico confirmado por PCR. ...
... Systemic inflammation and the accompanying elevated production of cytokines and reactive oxygen species are major stressors that, while indirect, can cause pathological effects on the brain (Figure 1) [13][14][15][16]. Cytokines can cross even the intact BBB and the barrier becomes more porous under inflammatory conditions; therefore, the brain receives exposure to the elevated cytokine levels that result from COVID-19 infection [17][18][19][20]. ...
... It was found that fatigue, as well as psychiatric and cognitive manifestations were the most discriminative symptoms, indicating that these alterations tend to occur together in a cohort of 749 patients who were hospitalised due to . This latent traitco-occurrence of fatigue, psychiatric and cognitive manifestations-as identified through factor analysis, was also associated with body weight loss, poor physical performance, and persistent inflammation, with high C-reactive protein (CRP) and D-dimer (16) content in the circulation. However, no association was found between these inflammatory markers and any individual symptoms of PCC (16). ...
... The hospital became a reference in the management of severe COVID-19. 19 In this context, our team designed in 2020 a prospective follow-up study, 6-12 months after hospital discharge, to monitor COVID-19 survivors. 11,14 This study found that 82% of the patients presented lung sequelae in the CT imaging, which impacted the pulmonary function tests. ...