Provides a wide range of assets and maintains a regular physical activity that also increases the probability of survival with sedentary conditions. This is the conclusion of a study conducted with patients hospitalized by COVID-19 by various cardiologists of the Cardiovascular Institute of the San Carlos Clinic Hospital Madrid published in the American Journal of Infectious Diseases in Therapy.
The investigation was conducted during the first part of the pandemic with 520 patients between 18 and 70 years of age who are hospitalized by COVID-19 between February 15 and April 15, 2020. Ethe group that maintains a constant physical activity, ligera or moderate, presents a mortality rate of 1.8% in front of 13.8% of the group with a sedentary lifestyle.
Patients, or their more affluent relatives, are conducting a telephone inquiry to evaluate the state of their physical condition in accordance with the RAPA scale (Quick assessment of physical activity scale) of the University of Washington. This scale means the aerobic intensity of physical exercise as well as the strength of muscle strength and flexibility between other parameters.
The patients were divided into two groups: the people who live a sedentary life (57.1%) and the people who realize ownership on a regular basis two days a week with a duration of less three minutes each day (42.9%). The objective of the study consisted of retrospectively analyzing the influence that the level of physical activity might have on the evolution of the infection during COVID-19 infection.
Study results
The results of the study “Fueron concluyentes”, away from the San Carlos Clinic. A mortality rate of 1.8% between those who take ownership is down to 13.8% of those who live. It is said that The people who regularly own it also have the highest probabilities of survival than the sedentary ones.
Hasta ahora “It is known that maintaining a regular physical activity increases the habitual factors of cardiovascular risk. But now we can examine patients in hospital with COVID-19 the transcendental influence of the practice of physical ownership in the surveillance or mortality of these patients ”, afirma el Dr. Ricardo Salgado, Cardiologist at San Carlos Clinic and the first firm of the article.
Missionaryism, tobaccoism and obesity
Pero también distacan otros hallazgos. Between the group of people with a sedentary lifestyle, compared to the most active group, has one mayor percentage of smokers (6.7% for 3.6%) and obese (23.6% for 16.1%) respectively. Also observed in sedentary persons are a mayor’s respiratory failure rate (53.9% for 35.9%), mayor renal failure (14.5% front to 6.3%), inflammatory respiration syndrome and hospital hospital mayor .
Hasta ahora “It is recommended to check the risk factors and perform physical exercise without much scientific evidence; without embarrassment, to be able to realize regular physical exercise is now a key factor ”, señala el Dr. Julián Pérez-Villacastín, Director of the Instituto Cardiovascular del Clínico, “You can also reduce the veces by the fallecer of COVID-19, which is the exact complicated hospitalario”.