Mental health symptoms are not correlated with peripheral inflammatory biomarkers concentrations in COVID-19-ARDS survivors.

Previous studies assessing mental health symptoms in ARDS survivors did not report any significant difference in the prevalence and the severity of PTSD-related symptoms between COVID-19-ARDS and other ARDS etiologies [[3]]. Along this line, plasma concentration of C-reactive protein (CRP) has been associated with the development of PTSD-symptoms in war zone-deployed Marines [[4]], with each tenfold increment in CRP concentration being associated with an odds ratio of PTSD symptoms of 1.51 (95% CI 1.15-1.97). [Extracted from the article]