Abstract
PURPOSE: To introduce the status of exercise intervention for chronic disease in China. METHODS: Literature consultation and interview method. With exercise prescription as keyword, and chronic disease and sports as theme author searched Chinese Journal Database for relevant papers in the past 10 years. RESULTS: 1) Relevant research papers: With exercise prescription as keyword, totally 2664, 2282 from 2000 and 387 from core journals, and with chronic disease and sports as theme, totally 794, 671 from 2000 and 129 from core journals. 10% of the 344 manuscripts in exchange of sport medicine in the 8th National Sport Science Conference were about exercise prescription for chronic disease. 2) Relevant research programs: There are more than 10 programs related with exercise prescription for chronic disease, holding by National Science and Technology Ministry, such as, 'Research and Application of Scientific Guide System for Exercise' and 'Research of Nation-wide Exercise Key Technologies and Development of Health Information System', Beijing Educational Committee, General Administration of Sport. All the projects involve assessment of risks in exercises and researches about exercise intervention for chronic disease, which includes high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, diabetes, obesity, lipid metabolism disorders, and osteoporosis and so on. CONCLUSIONS: 1) Most researches are experimental, with individualized exercise prescription as way of exercise intervention, mainly aiming at the early stage of chronic disease and early stage. 2) The exercise prescription uses the FITT model. 3) The chronic disease intervention often lasts 8-12 weeks. 4) Scientific study of exercise prescription and individual characteristics are more and more prominent and there have been a number of researches about various genetic polymorphism effects. 5) More and more attention paid on the necessity of health assessment before setting up an exercise prescription, evaluation of cardiovascular disease risk factors, and risk stratification and medical supervision during fitness testing and the implementation of exercise prescription. This paper supports by foundation of National Science and Technology Support Program in China (PROJECT No.: 2006BAK33B04).
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