Long covid as a long term condition

Affiliations

¹ Academic Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK.
² Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
³ Advanced therapy practitioner and patient with lived experience of long covid, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.

Editorial

Manoj Sivan et al. BMJ Med. 2025.

. 2025 Jan 31;4(1):e001366.

doi: 10.1136/bmjmed-2025-001366. eCollection 2025 Jan.

¹ Academic Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK.
² Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
³ Advanced therapy practitioner and patient with lived experience of long covid, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.

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