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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 105 participants. Long COVID and ME/CFS muscles had impaired mitochondrial energy production and fewer capillaries for their size, unlike 60 days of bed rest. Inactivity alone did not explain this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest - Nature CommunicationsLow aerobic capacity in patients with long COVID and ME/CFS is often attributed to physical inactivity. The authors show that long COVID and ME/CFS patients have distinct skeletal muscle changes that ...www.nature.com