Spontaneous physical functional recovery after hospitalization for COVID-19: insights from a 1 month follow-up and a model to predict poor trajectory.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long COVID syndrome has emerged as a new global healthcare challenge, with impaired physical performance being a prominent debilitating factor. Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation is a mainstay of management of symptomatic post-COVID patients, and optimization of candidate selection might allow for more effective use of available resources.

Methods

In order to study the natural dynamics and to identify predictors of physical functional recovery following hospitalization for COVID-19, 6 min walk test was performed pre-discharge in 176 patients (40% hypertensive, 53% female, mean age 53.2 ± 13.5 years) with re-evaluation at 1 month.

Results

Six min walk distance and the reached percent of predicted distance (6MWD%) were suboptimal at both visits-396 ± 71 m (68.7 ±

SUBMITTER: Honchar O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10399450 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature