Is there a role for the adrenal glands in long COVID?

Waldemar Kanczkowski; Felix Beuschlein; Stefan R Bornstein

doi:10.1038/s41574-022-00700-8

Is there a role for the adrenal glands in long COVID?

Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2022 Aug;18(8):451-452. doi: 10.1038/s41574-022-00700-8.

Authors

Waldemar Kanczkowski¹, Felix Beuschlein², Stefan R Bornstein^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
² Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. stefan.bornstein@ukdd.de.
⁴ School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK. stefan.bornstein@ukdd.de.

Abstract

The symptoms of long COVID and chronic adrenal insufficiency have striking similarities. Therefore, we aim to raise awareness of assessing adrenal function in patients with long COVID.

MeSH terms

Adrenal Glands
COVID-19* / complications
Humans
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome