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To bridge this gap, we investigated the potential of utilizing wearable sensor data to aid in the diagnosis of Long COVID. We analyzed longitudinal heart rate (HR) data from 126 individuals with acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to develop machine learning models capable of predicting Long COVID status using derived HR features, symptom features, or a combination of both feature sets. The HR features were derived across six analytical categories, including time-domain, Poincar\u00e9 nonlinear, raw signal, Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, variational mode decomposition (VMD), and the Shannon energy envelope (SEE), enabling the capture of heart rate dynamics over various temporal scales and the quantification of day-to-day shifts in HR distributions. The symptom features used in the final models included chest pain, vomiting, excessive sweating, memory loss, brain fog, heart palpitations, and loss of smell. 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