COVID-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

COVID-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication

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A review by Zhen Yan, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, showed that medical research findings "strongly support" the possibility that exercise can prevent or at least reduce the severity of acute respiratory distress syndrome, which affects between 3% and 17% of all patients with COVID-19.

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Dan Addison | UVA Communications

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