Tag : Exercising

California: While some individuals are able to recover from the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection, others have continued to endure COVID-19 aftereffects for a very long time. The inability to exercise as much is one of these persistent COVID symptoms. But there are still unanswered issues about the reasons underpinning why some COVID patients continue to have reduced exercise ability while others recover without this issue. In a study that was just published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a group of researchers from UC San Francisco discovered that people with Long COVID frequently had lower exercise capacities than expected, with chronotropic incompetence (inadequate heart rate increase during exercise) being the main cause. Additionally, they discovered a link between decreased exercise capacity and early post-Covid elevations of inflammatory biomarkers. Additionally, they discovered that decreased heart rate during exercise may be connected to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). First author Matthew Durstenfeld, MD, MAS, designed the cardiovascular sub-study as part of the Long-Term Impact of Infection with Novel Coronavirus (LIINC) study which was led by Michael Peluso, MD, MHS, UCSF assistant professor of Medicine. LIINC was designed to evaluate physical and mental health following COVID-19 infection by including individuals representing the full spectrum of acute illness and post-acute recovery. The study started in November 2020 using echocardiograms to evaluate cardiac conditions underlying post-COVID symptoms. When the initial echocardiogram-based study did not reveal cardiac mechanisms of symptoms, the team amended the study protocol to conduct a second visit with the study participants one year later for advanced testing inc ...