You've heard about brain fog, fatigue and headache as symptoms of long COVID. Now, a new UCSF study reveals the condition can also be derailing your exercise routine.
According to a study released Wednesday, Long COVID may age a person's capacity for exercise by roughly 10 years.
That sample was then narrowed to a pool of 359 subjects who had fully recovered from their COVID infection and 464 who had other symptoms of long COVID, including brain fog, fatigue and frequent headaches. According to the researchers, those with long COVID were determined to have an increased likelihood of irregular breathing, a reduced ability to pump blood fast enough through the body and the reduced ability for muscles to extract oxygen from the body's bloodstream.
"This decline in oxygen peak rate would roughly translate to a 40-year-old woman with an expected exercise capacity of 9.5 METs, dropping to 8.1 METs, the approximate expected exercise capacity for a 50-year-old woman," said Dr. Matthew Durstenfeld of the UCSF Department of Medicine and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital's Division of Cardiology.
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