Exercise-induced cardiac troponin T release in veteran athletes recovered from COVID-19

Physical exercise-related manifestations of long COVID: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…In addition, a manual search yielded 687, 374, and 500 records from the WHO Global Research Database on COVID-19, LitCovid, and Google Scholar, respectively. We finally identified 40 studies, of which 25 were further included in the meta-analysis 9 , 10 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 and 15 were excluded owing to incomplete information or data. 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 The detailed search results are presented in the PRISMA flowchart in Fig.…”

“… 38 , 54 Most of the included studies were cohort, cross-sectional and case-control studies, while one did not report the study design. 34 In addition, included studies were published in 2021–2024 and from several countries, including seven from United Kingdom, 10,24,30,38,40,43,55 four each from the United States 9 , 33 , 41 , 54 and Spain, 32 , 44 , 45 , 59 three each from China, 25 , 48 , 51 Netherlands, 28 , 46 , 60 two each from Canada, 23 , 50 Brazil, 31 , 56 Italy, 27 , 42 Turkey, 34 , 58 Austria, 37 , 57 and Israel, 26 , 36 and one each from Ecuador, 47 Belgium, 29 Egypt, 49 Norway, 52 Greece, 35 Switzerland, 53 and Sweden. 39 However, no studies from South Asian and African countries were found.…”

“…The physical exercise-related manifestations of PASC were assessed in the included studies using cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), 9 , 10 , 23 , 24 , 26 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 36 , 37 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 52 6MWT, 25 , 26 , 34 , 35 , 39 , 44 , 49 , 50 , 57 personalized exercise testing, 28 , 58 and/or physical exercise/physical activity-related questionnaires 27 , 30 , 31 , 34 , 38 , 43 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 50 , 51 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 59 , 60 in the included studies. Primary and secondary outcomes were measured prior to and/or post exercise testing in both COVID-19 survivors and non-COVID-19 controls at least 3 months post-SARS-CoV-2 infection (from 3 to 15 month).…”