International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 16/Apr/2021;34(6):737-41.
A Probable Relationship between Physical Exercise and COVID-19 Mediated by the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System
Renato Aparecido de Souza
, Priscila Missaki Nakamura
, Inaian Pignatti Teixeira
, Marco Tulio de Souza
, Wonder Passoni Higino
At the end of 2019, a novel human virus (SARS-CoV-2) causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) expanded globally from China. In February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially named this infectious disease coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and in March 2020, WHO announced COVID-19 a global pandemic. In June 2020, according to an interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time developed by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (https://www.eficiens.com/coronavirus-statistics/), more than 7 million people infected with the new coronavirus and more than 400,000 deaths were confirmed around the world.1 China and European countries have found solutions to manage and reduce the number of daily infections. However, new COVID-19 cases have risen at alarming rates in many other countries, and today Brazil is the third country in number of cases.
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