Long-term Effects of COVID-19 Post-Recovery Physical Activity

A team from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, studied the long-term health consequences of COVID-19. The team surveyed four men and six women who recovered from COVID-19 in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The patients ranged in age from 40 to 61. The average length of their hospitalization was 47.5 days. The survey results demonstrate that despite recovering, patients suffered a loss in “maximum functional capacity” and reduced scores in a metric for quality of life called the Short Form-36 score.

The research will be presented virtually at the American Physiological Society (APS) Integrative Physiology of Exercise (IPE). Request the Abstract: “Tolerance to maximum exercise and quality of life in survivors of the severe form of COVID-19 in a city in Brazil”