COVID-19 has demonstrated a substantial impact on patients with inflammatory arthritis, with those experiencing “long COVID” showing a significantly worse disease activity in addition to worse disability, pain, fatigue, and quality of life. Additionally, even those without long COVID had worse disease control when compared with patients without a history of a prior COVID-19 diagnosis.

“People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) are at risk for poor acute COVID-19 outcomes because of their disease, comorbidities, and/or treatments,” wrote a team of investigators led by Zachary Wallace, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. “Less is known about the impact of COVID-19 infection and ‘long COVID’ on post-acute COVID-19 outcomes in this vulnerable population, particularly with regard to rheumatic disease activity, disability, and quality of life.”

Source: MDMag

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