According to researchers, fatigue, breathlessness, and other symptoms that may persist for months post-recovery from the infection can both encourage a sedentary lifestyle and become more frequent as a result of inactivity. The link between physical inactivity and lingering symptoms of COVID-19 i
Long COVID refers to the phenomenon of individuals experiencing symptoms months after recovering from the initial COVID-19 infection. These symptoms can range from fatigue, breathlessness, and body aches to more serious health issues such as heart and lung damage.
The patients were hospitalized between March and August 2020, and a follow-up protocol was implemented between October 2020 and April 2021 . They were examined and interviewed to find out how physically active they were and to assess other lifestyle items. They were also asked to report whether they had ten symptoms associated with long COVID, such as fatigue, breathlessness, severe muscle pain, taste and smell loss, and memory impairment, among others.
Comorbidities were also significant: 37% were smokers, 58% had high blood pressure, 35% had diabetes and 17% were obese. “These are risk factors for severe COVID-19. They were expected to be frequent in the study because all the participants had been hospitalized,” Roschel said, adding that 55% had required intensive care and 37% had been intubated.
“It makes sense to assume that people with this condition experience more difficulty to maintain an active routine,” he said. “But it’s also plausible that people with a sedentary lifestyle are more subject to these long-term symptoms after recovering from an acute infection. Our study doesn’t allow us to infer causality.”In the article, the authors say physical inactivity “itself may be considered a persistent symptom among COVID-19 survivors”.
A study conducted in the United States in 2020 analyzed the prior history of physical activity for 48,440 COVID-19 patients and found the risk of hospitalization, admission to the ICU, and death to be highest among those who were consistently inactive.
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