More Exercise Lowers Risk of Severe COVID-19: Study
April 19, 2021 Add another potential benefit to getting the recommended amount of physical activity each week: people who exercised regularly and then tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were less likely to experience more severe COVID-19 outcomes, a new study shows.
Importantly, even people who could not realistically exercise 150 minutes or more per week still experienced significant benefits compared with people who said they exercised 10 minutes or less.
Compared with the most active people in the study those who exercised 150 minutes or more every week patients with COVID-19 who were consistently inactive were 226% more likely to be hospitalized, 173% more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), and 149% more likely to die.
The study, conducted by researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in California, was published online April 13 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. It included 48,440 adult patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis from January to October 2020 with at least three outpatient visits with an exercise vital sign measure between March 2018 and March 2020.
Patients who reported exercising 150 minutes or more each week were considered regularly physically active while those who exercised 10 minutes or less each week were deemed as consistently inactive. Those who got in 11 to 149 minutes of exercise each week were considered somewhat active.
The study also found that inactive COVID-19 patients were 120% more likely to require hospitalization, 110% more likely to need critical care admission and 132% more likely to die compared with people who said they exercised 11 to 149 minutes each week.
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Does Exercise Protect You From COVID-19?
Patients who are even mildly active are more likely to avoid the worst effects of the coronavirus.
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A little exercise can go a long way toward protecting people from the worst effects of COVID-19, a recent study finds.
A consistent regimen of physical activity provides “strong protection” from hospitalization, intensive care unit admission and death associated with COVID-19, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of nearly 50,000 people diagnosed with the disease caused by the coronavirus.
And even if you just exercise occasionally, you still are likely to fare better than people who are never active.
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