{"id":293,"date":"2023-07-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=293"},"modified":"2023-08-12T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:20:30","slug":"low-muscle-mass-could-make-people-more-vulnerable-to-covid-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/low-muscle-mass-could-make-people-more-vulnerable-to-covid-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Low muscle mass could make people more vulnerable to COVID, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>University of Alberta<\/h2>\n<h2>July&nbsp;13, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Levels of muscle mass and body fat play a pivotal role in COVID-19 prognosis and recovery, according to new University of Alberta research.<\/p>\n<p>In a review of several studies, the researchers found that abnormalities in body composition were prevalent in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and were often associated with more severe disease and poorer outcomes, including higher risk of death.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/folio\/2023\/07\/low-muscle-mass-could-make-people-more-vulnerable-to-covid.html\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/folio\/2023\/07\/low-muscle-mass-could-make-people-more-vulnerable-to-covid.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>University of Alberta<\/h3>\n<h3>July&nbsp;13, 2023<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/low-muscle-mass-could-make-people-more-vulnerable-to-covid-study-suggests\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Low muscle mass could make people more vulnerable to COVID, study suggests<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,108,8,14,107],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-low-muscle-mass","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-university-of-alberta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}