ArticlePhysiological reports2023
Relationship between exercise capacity and fatigue, dyspnea, and lung function in non-hospitalized patients with long COVID.
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- The impact of long COVID on physical and cardiorespiratory parameters: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
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- Improved functional exercise capacity after primary care pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with long COVID (PuRe-COVID): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Trial
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- Symptom burden, lung function, exercise tolerance and inflammation in patients post COVID-19: results from the prospective COVID-19 Chronic Morbidity (CCHROMO) study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
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- Reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Barthel Index-dyspnea in patients with pulmonary hypertension.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
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- No impairment of maximal oxygen uptake, pulmonary function and walking economy in patients diagnosed with long COVID: consideration of disease severity.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Maximal oxygen uptake, pulmonary function and walking economy are not impaired in patients diagnosed with long COVID.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Use of speleotherapy in patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- CORACLE (COVID-19 liteRAture CompiLEr): A platform for efficient tracking and extraction of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 literature, with examples from post-COVID with respiratory involvement.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- Clinical and Physiological Variables in Patients with Post-COVID-19 Condition and Persistent Fatigue.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Relationship between exercise capacity and fatigue, dyspnea, and lung function in non-hospitalized patients with long COVID.Physiological reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Long COVID is a global health problem that impairs patients' functional status. More than 200 reported symptoms have been identified where fatigue, dyspnea, and exercise impairment are most common. This study aimed to describe exercise capacity, fatigue, dyspnea, and lung function in previously non-hospitalized patients with long COVID, and examine the relationship between exercise capacity and fatigue, dyspnea, and lung function. Sixty-five patients, 54 women (83%), mean age of 39 standard deviation (12) years, were included and completed spirometry, cardiopulmonary exercise test, stair climbing test (SCT), 30 second sit-to-stand test (30STST), and questionnaires regarding fatigue and dyspnea. Fatigue was reported by 95% of the participants, whereas 65% reported severe fatigue, and 66% reported dyspnea. Mean exercise capacity measured with peak oxygen uptake (V̇O
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