A letter to the editor in response to the article "Post-exertional malaise and the myth of cardiac deconditioning: rethinking the pathophysiology of long covid"
Major concern: clinical risks of positioning post-exertional malaise as a “hallmark” of cardiovascular long COVID
Apr 8, 2026|British Journal of Sports Medicine
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