Females are more affected by long covid, and it is possibly related to the impact on hormones.
Many of the symptoms would be exacerbated by being peri-menopausal and could skew the results.
It would be useful to compare symptoms between males and younger females to see if significant differences remain.
Perlis, Roy H., et al. "Prevalence and Correlates of Long COVID Symptoms Among US Adults." JAMA Network Open 5.10 (2022): e2238804-e2238804.
Interestingly, recent studies suggest that intracellular serotonin may also play a role in platelet activation through covalent linkage to small G proteins via tissue transglutaminase. This modification constitutively activates G protein–dependent signaling pathways and stimulates platelet aggregation.
Berger, Miles, John A. Gray, and Bryan L. Roth. "The expanded biology of serotonin." Annual review of medicine 60 (2009): 355.
Don't you know? Long covid (like all the other female dominated diseases) does not exist.
Also please get this very clear. I had covid, I have long covid and I never took a jab and never took a nasal swab until forced to in hospital - yes forced or they would not act to save my life. That was the threat and I succumbed (to the swab, not the jab). Do not confuse long covid with vaccine injury, they are two different things with some common features (ie the spike protein) but long covid is NOT restricted to the jabbed. It IS a feature of covid.
I was hospitalised for 2 weeks with covid in April. Once "released" from the solitary confinement of my prison cell (otherwise known as ICU), I was placed under the care of a local doctor, the only one willing to see me. Lovely though she is, she knows nothing about covid, let alone long covid. I asked for outpatient care, and 6 months later I had my appointment with the hospital virologist, to see what support there might be for long covid sufferers. His response. There is no officially recognised diagnosis of long covid, (note the weasel words) after which he refused to discuss it. He asked me what I though my long covid symptoms were, and did write something down. I asked him if there were any support groups or plans for such. No. When I left I had no additional treatment, no suggestions for how to approach my symptoms, no referral to an outpatient neurologist (which I specifically asked for) and general ridicule for my idea that I am dealing with dysautonomia.) Nada. No help or support or follow up of any kind. He did test my autonomic nervous system by testing my blood pressure (which was very high), asking me to stand up and testing it again (and it remained very high). As it did not drop and I did not pass out, he pronounced that I had no issue with my autonomic nervous system. Nice to know.
So back to having to research all of this for myself, back to having to work out my own self-medication regime, and back to having to pay outlandish prices for off the shelf supplements because no doctor will even offer me a state subsidised treatment plan. I have enough supplements to see me through till after Christmas, that I payed for with a Centrelink advance. Once those pills run out, I will have to work out what of them I can afford. Wish me luck.
Oh, and at 72, I am a long way past menopause, so don't try to duck shove the blame to that. What I do have is a 72 year old vagus nerve, and a life of trauma.
Long COVID? What a total fraud. Only an absolute moron would believe that these malingering morons have some made up disease so they can wring more sympathy and money out of the rest of us. When are the hangings starting for the COVID fraud? These freeloading scum can be at the front of the queue.