Denis - The COVID info guy -Dec 19, 2023

Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.

“We found that despite the fact that the heart was pumping oxygenated blood that the lungs were providing adequate amounts of oxygen for, the extraction of oxygen by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of exercise intolerance after COVID"

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Source: https://news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/study-helps-explain-post-covid-exercise-intolerance

Study helps explain post-COVID exercise intolerance

Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.

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"Some patients have been told that their symptoms are a result of deconditioning, or decline from lack of physical activity, and that reconditioning alone would address the intolerance.

“Our findings contradict that hypothesis, and instead support the idea that there is a clear physiologic abnormality underpinning the symptoms experienced by our patients,” said Kahn."

Dec 20, 2023 at 4:17amWeb