A quarter of people treated for Lyme disease have lasting complaints, such as fatigue, difficulty concentrating or pain. In eBioMedicine researchers show that they could not find any obvious biological, genetic or clinical causes for the persistence of these complaints.
In the group of people who were treated after an infection with the Lyme bacteria, 1 in 4 people appeared to suffer from complaints such as fatigue, difficulty concentrating or pain. These health complaints occur in 1 in 5 people without Lyme infection, which is therefore less common than in people with Lyme disease.
In the LymeProspect study, researchers from Radboud University Medical Center, Amsterdam UMC and the RIVM examined whether it can be predicted in the period surrounding treatment who will have long-term complaints and who will not. However, the researchers were unable to identify any obvious biological, genetic or clinical causes from the results.
They did see a certain immune reaction against the Lyme bacteria slightly more often in the blood of people who had symptoms. Whether this reaction actually has anything to do with long-term complaints needs to be further investigated. A higher perceived severity of Lyme disease at the start of treatment also appeared to be a predictor of long-term complaints.
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2023-12-04 11:14:36
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