Long COVID Can Make You Less Able to Exercise: Study
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Adults with persistent cases of long COVID lost some of their ability to exercise 3 months after getting COVID, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from the University of California San Francisco and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital identified 38 previous studies that used cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to measure how well people with long COVID could exercise after recovering from COVID. CPET measured how much oxygen they used as they exercised on either a stationary bike or a treadmill to find out how well their heart and lungs were working.
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@piyush-ashish The team narrowed down their sample from 38 studies to 9, comparing exercise testing results from 359 people who recovered from COVID to that of 464 people who had symptoms consistent with long COVID. The age range of the people studied was 39 to 56 years old.