Women with long COVID-19 may need targeted rehabilitation to help counter problems with physical activity tolerance

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/934265

 

 News Release 11-Nov-2021
Peer-Reviewed Publication
The Physiological Society

Women with long COVID experience heart rate irregularities in response to physical exertion, and this has the potential to constrain not only exercise tolerance but free-living physical activity (1). 

In perspective of the greater prevalence of age-related physical disability among women, compared to men, these findings highlight a need for targeted rehabilitation programmes to manage the consequences of persistent heart and lung problems in women with lingering COVID-19 related symptoms. 

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