Is post-covid pain associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms in covid-19 survivors who had been hospitalized? A summarizing study

Rocco Giordano, C. Fernández-de-las-Penas, Gema Díaz-Gil, Antonio Gil-Crujera, Stella M. Gómez-Sánchez, Silvia Ambite-Quesada, Lars Arendt-Nielsen*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Background and aims: The role of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the acute phase of coronavirus disease, 2019 (COVID-19) has been investigated. Different SNP have been associated with a more severe condition. The current study aimed to investigate the association between different selected SNP with the presence of de novo post-COVID pain symptoms in a sample of previously hospitalized COVID-19 survivors.

Methods: No-stimulated saliva samples were collected from 293 (49.5% female, age: 55.6±12.9 years) previously hospitalized COVID-19 survivors. Three different types of SNP were investigated: 1, pain-related: OPRM1_rs1799971, COMT_rs4680, BDNF_ rs6265, HTR1B_rs6296; 2, inflammatory-related: IL-6_rs1800796, IL-10_rs1800896, TNF-α_rs1800629, IFITM3_rs12252; and, 3, COVID-19 related: ACE2_rs2285666, ACE2_rs2074192, ACE1_rs1799752; TMPRSS2_rs12329760, TMPRSS2 _ rs2070788.
Three potential genotypes of each SNPs were identified. The presence of post-COVID pain symptoms, intensity and duration of pain were assessed in a face-to-face interview conducted at 17.8 ± 5.2 months after hospitalization.

Results: One hundred and seventeen (39.9%) experienced post-COVID pain, particularly defined of musculoskeletal origin. Overall, the distribution of the genotype variants of any SNP were not significantly different between COVID-19 survivors with and without de novo post-COVID pain symptoms (all, P>0.151). No effect of gender was identified for any SNP.

Conclusions: The current summarizing study found that different SNPs associated with pain, inflammatory and immune responses, and COVID-19 acute severity did not appear to predispose for the development of de novo long-COVID pain symptoms in previously hospitalized COVID-19 survivors.
Original languageEnglish
Publication dateSept 2023
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2023
Event13th Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC: Personalised Pain Management: The Future is Now - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 20 Sept 202322 Sept 2023
https://europeanpainfederation.eu/efic2023/

Conference

Conference13th Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period20/09/202322/09/2023
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