New Delhi, Nov 5 (PTI) The order in which one developed chronic conditions before getting infected with COVID-19 can influence their risk of long Covid, symptoms that persist despite recovery, according to a new study.

Researchers analysed clinical and genetic information of over 8,300 people living in Spain's Catalonia, collected over 15 years as part of the 'Genomes for Life' project. Disease trajectories were reconstructed from electronic health records of 2010-2019.

"It is not enough to know which diseases a person has. The order in which they appear can significantly influence risk (of long Covid), especially among women," said first author Natalia Blay from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute in Spain.

Findings published in the journal BMC Medicine show that of the total

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