ArticleCritical care (London, England)2022
Dehydration is associated with production of organic osmolytes and predicts physical long-term symptoms after COVID-19: a multicenter cohort study.
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Uppsala Intensive Care Study of Mechanisms for Organ Dysfunction in Covid-19
Uppföljning av Patienter Som intensivvårdats för COVID-19
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Free water improves sodium mobilization in furosemide treated pigs after a hyperosmotic sodium load.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2025Article
- The impact of high-salt diet and diuretics on the development of the aestival phenomenon in patients with chronic heart failure.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Metabolomic pattern associated with physical sequelae in patients presenting with respiratory symptoms validates the aestivation concept in dehydrated patients.Physiological genomics · 2024Article
- Long-term health outcomes associated with hydration status.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2024Review
- Impact of mask wearing time on fluid consumption and physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- The long-term health outcomes, pathophysiological mechanisms and multidisciplinary management of long COVID.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023Review
- Health-related quality of life after surviving intensive care for COVID-19: a prospective multicenter cohort study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Hypothesis: inflammatory acid-base disruption underpins Long Covid.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe have previously shown that iatrogenic dehydration is associated with a shift to organic osmolyte production in the general ICU population. The aim of the present investigation was to determine the validity of the physiological response to dehydration known as aestivation and its relevance for long-term disease outcome in COVID-19.
methodsThe study includes 374 COVID-19 patients from the Pronmed cohort admitted to the ICU at Uppsala University Hospital. Dehydration data was available for 165 of these patients and used for the primary analysis. Validation was performed in Biobanque Québécoise de la COVID-19 (BQC19) using 1052 patients with dehydration data. Dehydration was assessed through estimated osmolality (eOSM = 2Na + 2 K + glucose + urea), and correlated to important endpoints including death, invasive mechanical ventilation, acute kidney injury, and long COVID-19 symptom score grouped by physical or mental.
resultsIncreasing eOSM was correlated with increasing role of organic osmolytes for eOSM, while the proportion of sodium and potassium of eOSM were inversely correlated to eOSM. Acute outcomes were associated with pronounced dehydration, and physical long-COVID was more strongly associated with dehydration than mental long-COVID after adjustment for age, sex, and disease severity. Metabolomic analysis showed enrichment of amino acids among metabolites that showed an aestivating pattern.
conclusionsDehydration during acute COVID-19 infection causes an aestivation response that is associated with protein degradation and physical long-COVID.
trial registrationThe study was registered à priori (clinicaltrials.gov: NCT04316884 registered on 2020-03-13 and NCT04474249 registered on 2020-06-29).
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