Introduction:

COVID-19 affects the respiratory and cardiovascular systems during the disease process; however, it is unknown if this affectation disappears with the resolution of the inflammatory process or if it remains in the form of a sequel over time.

Objective:

To analyze the cardiorespiratory functional capacity in patients between 30 and 60 years old post COVID-19.

Methods:

A basic, non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional investigation was carried out that included 328 patients, of which 178 were part of the sample. General characteristics, respiratory and cardiovascular functional capacity were analyzed.

Results:

Average age of 53,48 years with a predominance of female patients (55.62 %). 33.15 % of the patients reported an associated comorbidity. 15.73 % of the patients presented bradycardia and 8.99 % tachycardia. Hypertensive disease was identified in 42.70 % of the cases. The respiratory manifestations were given by the presence of dyspnea and a high percentage of patients with tachypnea and oxygen saturation disorders.

Conclusions:

After 6 months of the presence of COVID-19, a high percentage of patients presented cardiorespiratory manifestations that affected the functional capacity of both devices.

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