Following healthylifestyle may reduce risk of long COVID HarvardChanSPH JAMAInternalMed
"With ongoing waves of COVID-19, long COVID has created a serious public health burden. Our findings raise the possibility that adopting more healthy behaviors may reduce the risk of developing long COVID," said Andrea Roberts, senior research scientist in the Department of Environmental Health and senior author of the study.
The researchers analyzed data from more than 32,000 female nurses in the Nurses' Health Study II, who reported on lifestyle in 2015 and 2017 and reported history of SARS-CoV-2 infection from April 2020 to November 2021. During that time, more than 1,900 participants contracted COVID-19. Among these, 44% developed long COVID. Compared to women without any