An online breathing and well-being program improved health-related quality of life and persistent breathlessness in individuals with ongoing symptoms following COVID-19, researchers reported in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
“We urgently need evidence-based treatments and interventions for people with long COVID, which currently affects approximately 1 in 50 people in the U.K.,” Keir E. J. Philip, MRCP, clinical research fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute and the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre at Imperial College London, and colleagues said in a related