Women are entering the medical and scientific community in growing numbers, reaching and even surpassing their male counterparts in medical schools. However, a settled imbalance between men and women is still a reality in the international cardiology community despite these recent advances. The female presence in Brazilian medical schools was barely noticed until the 1960s; in the following years, there was a gradual increase in the number of women in the medical field, mainly in the first decade of the […]

Exercise is medicine! Although this premise is well established, how to maintain this “treatment” for various diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic? This has been a concern of all doctors in the world since exercise contributes to the control of cardiovascular diseases and other comorbidities recognized as risk factors for a worse outcome in COVID-19. Moreover, it has already been shown that higher cardiorespiratory fitness is inversely associated with the likelihood of hospitalization due to COVID-19. In addition to the hygiene […]

The disease caused by Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with significant mortality and morbidity, including pulmonary and cardiac adverse sequelae.1–3 It began in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan, and quickly became a pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 of 2019.4 By early September 2020, more than 28 million patients have been confirmed infected by COVID-19 in more than 200 countries.3 […]