It is not clear how many people get LONG QUALITY. But it is estimated that between 15 percent and 80 percent of people are infected. Based on those figures, it is possible that as many as 1 million residents of Louisiana have persistent COVID.
Prolonged COVID causes what the Centers for Disease Control describes as “a range of other debilitating symptoms” including brain fog, muscle aches and fatigue that can last for months after a person recovers from initial infection.
“For example, a person may not become very ill from COVID-19, but six months later, long after their cough or fever is gone, they will develop diabetes,” Dr. Rebello said.
One solution is exercise. Rebello and her co-authors describe their hypothesis in “Exercise as a moderator of persistent neurological symptoms of COVID-19,” published in the journal Exercise and Science. Sport.
“You don’t have to run a mile or even walk a mile at a brisk pace,” Dr. Rebello said. “Slow walking is also exercise. Ideally, you should exercise for 30 minutes. But if you can only do 15 minutes at a time, try to do two 15-minute sessions. If you can only walk Every 15 minutes. day, do it. It’s important to try. It doesn’t matter where you start. You can gradually build up to the recommended level of exercise.”
“We know that physical activity is an important component of a healthy life. This study shows that exercise can be used to disrupt the inflammatory cascade that leads to blood sugar levels,” he said. high blood pressure, and subsequently lead to the development or progression of type 2 diabetes,” Dr John Kirwan, Pennington Biomedical Executive Director, is also a co-author of the paper.
This work is supported in part by award number 1K99AG065419-02 from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health and from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which grants China Louisiana Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences through award number U54 GM104940.
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Source: Eurekalert
