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Research Article 2026-06-16CC BY-NCFree full text · non-commercial reuse

Development of a symptom-based severity score anchored to health-related quality of life post-COVID-19 within the population-based EPILOC cohorts

Raphael S. Peter, Lisamaria Sedelmaier, Alexandra Nieters, Claudia Schilling, Lynn Matits, Siri Göpel +5 more

PurposeBecause simple symptom counts treat all symptoms as equally important and may not adequately capture the HRQoL impact of heterogeneous post-COVID-19 symptoms, we aimed to develop an HRQoL-anchored symptom severity score providing an interpretable measure of post-COVID-19 disease burden. MethodsBaseline data from the population-based EPILOC and EPILOC Omicron surveys (adults aged 18-65 years) were used to de…

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Longitudinal course of endocannabinoids and N-acylethanolamines in hair of mothers and their children in the first year postpartum: investigating the relevance of maternal childhood maltreatment experiences.

Melissa Hitzler, Lynn Matits, Anja M Gumpp, Alexandra M Bach, Ute Ziegenhain, Wei Gao +2 more

Background Childhood maltreatment (CM) exerts long-lasting psychological and biological alterations in affected individuals and might also affect the endocannabinoid (eCB) system which modulates inflammation and the endocrine stress response. Here, we investigated the eCB system of women with and without CM and their infants using hair samples representing eCB levels accumulated during the last trimester of pregna…

Psychological Medicine