Exercise Training: A Hero that Can Fight two Pandemics at Once

Renata Rodrigues Teixeira De Castro,Roberta Rodrigues Teixeira De Castro,João Giffoni Da Silveira

doi:10.36660/ijcs.20200083

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Abstract

The sedentarism pandemic The WHO recommends that adults aged 18 years and older should accumulate at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, or a combination of both per week. People who do not meet these requirements are considered sedentary. The health benefits of physical exercise include lower risks of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, dementia and breast and colon cancer. – Despite all these benefits, sedentarism is a pandemic, affecting 27.5% of people [...]

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On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the new COVID-19 outbreak was a public health emergency of pandemic proportions
Yang et al.,[12] described that, in Chinese patients infected with COVID-19, hypertension was the most prevalent comorbidity (17 ± 7%), followed by diabetes (8 ± 6%) and cardiovascular diseases (5 ± 4%)
Time Exercise duration depends on individual aerobic capacity, but sets of 30 to 50 minutes are recommended

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The sedentarism pandemic

The WHO recommends that adults aged 18 years and older should accumulate at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, or a combination of both per week.[4]. The health benefits of physical exercise include lower risks of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, dementia and breast and colon cancer.[5,6,7,8,9] Despite all these benefits, sedentarism is a pandemic, affecting 27.5% of people globally.[10]. Yang et al.,[12] described that, in Chinese patients infected with COVID-19, hypertension was the most prevalent comorbidity (17 ± 7%), followed by diabetes (8 ± 6%) and cardiovascular diseases (5 ± 4%). Another meta-analysis confirmed that these comorbidities were associated with poor prognosis. It is clear that these comorbidities would be less prevalent if minimal WHOs exercise requirements were globally met.[4]

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Exercise prescription during the COVID pandemic

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