Contracting COVID-19 can cause metabolic abnormalities, which may contribute to things like insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

So a team of researchers wanted to find out whether vaccination against COVID-19 could have the same effect.

They tracked a small group of people as they received up to four vaccinations, comparing them to people with a mild coronavirus infection.

Guest/s

• Associate Professor Ruey Leng Loo,  Molecular Nutrition at the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University

References

• Longitudinal study on immunologic, lipoproteomic, and inflammatory responses indicates the safety of sequential COVID-19 vaccination