According to one study, women who exercise regularly, follow a high-quality diet, get enough sleep, and stick to other possible healthy lifestyle choices reduce the threat of a long covid period compared to women without any healthy lifestyle factors. Published Monday, after researchers continue to read about this leads and exacerbates the complex condition.
Healthy lifestyle habits, in addition to maintaining a healthy body weight, not smoking and moderate alcohol consumption were some of the other points considered by the researchers in the study published in the Journal of American Medical Association Internal Medicine.
Researchers analyzed the knowledge of more than 32,000 participants who reported on their lifestyle behavior in 2015 and 2017, some of whom later reported having Covid between April 2020 and November 2021.
Of the women who contracted COVID-19 in the study, 44% of them developed prolonged covid and among those women, participants who practiced five or six of the healthy lifestyle points reduced their threat of prolonged covid by 49%, the researchers said. .
According to the study, the points most strongly linked to reducing the risk of prolonged covid were maintaining a healthy body weight and getting enough sleep.
The researchers suggested that an underlying option for the associations found in the study was the link between poor lifestyle and increased risk of chronic inflammation and immune dysregulation, both of which were linked to increased long-term covid risk.
Symptoms of a long covid come with fever, fatigue, respiratory problems, cardiac and neurological symptoms, as well as digestive problems.
With an estimated 8 to 23 million Americans suffering from long-term covid (experiencing COVID-19 symptoms for four weeks or more after infection), the results of this observational study are based on other studies that have been conducted to better understand prolonged covid. In December, a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that getting more exercise can reduce the risk of severe covid-19, hospitalization, and death. The more active the study patients were before infection, the lower the risk of hospitalization. or death within 90 days of Covid-19 diagnosis. Another study published in August in the British Journal of Sports Medicine had similar effects. Regular exercise can reduce the risk of contracting Covid and reduce the risk of getting a serious illness. Compared to their physically inactive peers, normal athletes had an 11% lower risk of covid infection and a 44% lower risk of severe illness, the researchers found.
If you make adjustments to a healthy lifestyle after a covid infection, rather than having maintained a healthy lifestyle before infection, you can reduce the risk of having a prolonged covid or relieve symptoms related to prolonged covid.
“With the continued waves of covid-19, the long covid has created a serious burden on public health,” said Andrea Robers, leader of the study. “Our findings raise the option that adopting healthier behaviors would possibly lessen the threat of a long Covid coming. “
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