Excess weight, including overweight and obesity, is linked with experiencing Long COVID neurological symptoms including headaches, vertigo, sleep problems and depression, per meta-analysis of studies comprising almost 140,000 total participants

Excess weight, including overweight and obesity, is linked with experiencing Long Covid neurological symptoms including headaches, vertigo, sleep problems and depression, per meta-analysis of studies comprising almost 140,000 total participants

Article URL: https://plos.io/4lNLY2G

Article title: Excess weight is associated with neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms in post-COVID-19 condition: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Author countries: Brazil, Australia, China

Funding: This research received a grant from the Research Support Program at the Superior School of Health Sciences, Brasília, Brazil, funded by the Health Sciences Teaching and Research Foundation (Grant and Acceptance Term No. 5/2020 – FEPECS/DE) (DBR). This study was also partially financed by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brasil – Finance Code 001 (DBR). MS is supported by the Western Australian Future Health Research and Innovation Fund (Grant ID WANMA/Ideas2023-24/10). KMBC is supported by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development CNPq (Grant n. 302740/2022-8). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.