International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 21/May/2020;33(3):284-7.

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

Renata Rodrigues Teixeira de Castro ORCID logo , João Giffoni da Silveira Neto ORCID logo , Roberta Rodrigues Teixeira de Castro ORCID logo

DOI: 10.36660/ijcs.20200083

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 globally.

Sedentarism increases the risk of the world´s major non-communicable diseases. I-Min Lee et al., estimated that physical inactivity is responsible for 6% of the burden of coronary artery disease, 7% of type 2 diabetes, 10% of breast cancer and colon cancers. Thus, inactivity is considered responsible for 9% of premature mortality, globally. Actually, sedentarism kills more people annually than the COVID-19 infection.

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

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