Nature Communications (Jan 2024)

Features of acute COVID-19 associated with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 phenotypes: results from the IMPACC study

  • Al Ozonoff,
  • Naresh Doni Jayavelu,
  • Shanshan Liu,
  • Esther Melamed,
  • Carly E. Milliren,
  • Jingjing Qi,
  • Linda N. Geng,
  • Grace A. McComsey,
  • Charles B. Cairns,
  • Lindsey R. Baden,
  • Joanna Schaenman,
  • Albert C. Shaw,
  • Hady Samaha,
  • Vicki Seyfert-Margolis,
  • Florian Krammer,
  • Lindsey B. Rosen,
  • Hanno Steen,
  • Caitlin Syphurs,
  • Ravi Dandekar,
  • Casey P. Shannon,
  • Rafick P. Sekaly,
  • Lauren I. R. Ehrlich,
  • David B. Corry,
  • Farrah Kheradmand,
  • Mark A. Atkinson,
  • Scott C. Brakenridge,
  • Nelson I. Agudelo Higuita,
  • Jordan P. Metcalf,
  • Catherine L. Hough,
  • William B. Messer,
  • Bali Pulendran,
  • Kari C. Nadeau,
  • Mark M. Davis,
  • Ana Fernandez Sesma,
  • Viviana Simon,
  • Harm van Bakel,
  • Seunghee Kim-Schulze,
  • David A. Hafler,
  • Ofer Levy,
  • Monica Kraft,
  • Chris Bime,
  • Elias K. Haddad,
  • Carolyn S. Calfee,
  • David J. Erle,
  • Charles R. Langelier,
  • Walter Eckalbar,
  • Steven E. Bosinger,
  • IMPACC Network,
  • Bjoern Peters,
  • Steven H. Kleinstein,
  • Elaine F. Reed,
  • Alison D. Augustine,
  • Joann Diray-Arce,
  • Holden T. Maecker,
  • Matthew C. Altman,
  • Ruth R. Montgomery,
  • Patrice M. Becker,
  • Nadine Rouphael

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44090-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Abstract Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) is a significant public health concern. We describe Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) on 590 participants prospectively assessed from hospital admission for COVID-19 through one year after discharge. Modeling identified 4 PRO clusters based on reported deficits (minimal, physical, mental/cognitive, and multidomain), supporting heterogenous clinical presentations in PASC, with sub-phenotypes associated with female sex and distinctive comorbidities. During the acute phase of disease, a higher respiratory SARS-CoV-2 viral burden and lower Receptor Binding Domain and Spike antibody titers were associated with both the physical predominant and the multidomain deficit clusters. A lower frequency of circulating B lymphocytes by mass cytometry (CyTOF) was observed in the multidomain deficit cluster. Circulating fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) was significantly elevated in the mental/cognitive predominant and the multidomain clusters. Future efforts to link PASC to acute anti-viral host responses may help to better target treatment and prevention of PASC.