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. 2020 Oct 15;56(4):2002096.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.02096-2020. Print 2020 Oct.

Low physical functioning and impaired performance of activities of daily life in COVID-19 patients who survived hospitalisation

Stefano Belli  1 , Bruno Balbi  1 , Ilaria Prince  1 , Davide Cattaneo  1 , Francesca Masocco  1 , Sergio Zaccaria  1 , Luca Bertalli  1 , Francesco Cattini  1 , Arianna Lomazzo  1 , Francesca Dal Negro  1 , Marica Giardini  1 , Frits M E Franssen  2   3   4 , Daisy J A Janssen  2   5 , Martijn A Spruit  2   3   4   6
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Low physical functioning and impaired performance of activities of daily life in COVID-19 patients who survived hospitalisation

Stefano Belli et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

About half of post-COVID-19 patients had severe impairments in physical functioning and during activities of daily living at discharge home, providing a clear rationale to study the safety and efficacy of rehabilitative interventions in these patients https://bit.ly/3hJvXJa

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: S. Belli has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: B. Balbi has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: I. Prince has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: D. Cattaneo has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: F. Masocco has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: S. Zaccaria has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: L. Bertalli has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: F. Cattini has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: A. Lomazzo has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: F. Dal Negro has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Giardini has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: F.M.E. Franssen reports grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca and Novartis, and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline and TEVA, outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: D.J.A. Janssen reports personal fees for lectures from Astra Zeneca, Novartis and Boehringer Ingelheim, outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: M.A. Spruit reports grants from the Netherlands Lung Foundation and Stichting Astma Bestrijding, and grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim, outside the submitted work.

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FIGURE 1
Proportions of patients with abnormal physical functioning and/or abnormal performance of activities of daily living: patients (at entry in Veruno and at discharge home) with an abnormally low number of 1-min chair stands in the 1-min sit-to-stand (STS) test (below percentile 2.5 of the reference values [9]), with a summary score on the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) of 0–6 points (low performance), or with a poor score (≤60 points) on the Barthel index.
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