CRP and COVID-19: The risk factors for PASC include increased age, female sex, comorbidities (obesity, diabetes, and hypertension), acute COVID-19 severity, intensive care unit admission,186 prolonged hospitalization, SARS-CoV-2 viremia, and elevated inflammatory (ferritin and C-reactive protein) and cardiac (troponin and B-type natriuretic peptide) biomarkers.187