Exercise may treat long COVID-induced diabetes, depression: Study
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"Exercise takes care of the inflammation that leads to elevated blood glucose and the development and progression of diabetes and clinical depression".
Los Angeles: There are no medical treatments that exist for long COVID, but, according to a new study, exercise might break the vicious cycle of inflammation that could lead to developing diabetes and depression months after a person recovered from the virus. The study was published in the journal, `Exercise and Sports Sciences Reviews`.
"We know that long COVID causes depression, and we know that it can increase blood glucose levels to the point where people develop diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially life-threatening condition common among people with type 1 diabetes," said Candida Rebello, PhD, a research scientist at Pennington Biomedical Research Centre.
"Exercise can help. Exercise takes care of the inflammation that leads to elevated blood glucose and the development and progression of diabetes and clinical depression," she added.
It`s unclear how many people suffer from long COVID.19, but estimates range from 15 per cent to 80 per cent of the people infected. Based on those figures, it`s possible that as many as 1 million of Louisiana`s residents suffer from long COVID.
Long COVID causes what the Centres for Disease Control describes as "a constellation of other debilitating symptoms" including brain fog, muscle pain, and fatigue that can last for months after a person recovers from the initial infection."
