The study’s lead investigator, Patricia Schalgenhauf, said: “Increased BMI, high cholesterol and lower physical stamina is suggestive of a higher risk of developing metabolic disorders and possible cardiovascular complications.
“These results have society and public health effects and can be used to guide strategies for broad interdisciplinary evaluation of COVID-19 sequelae (long Covid), their management, curative treatments, and provision of support in young adult populations.”
It comes as recent studies have uncovered three subgroups of long Covid that appear across several coronavirus subvariants.
The discovery was detailed in a pre-print study published in MedRxiv in August 2022.