{"id":1785983,"date":"2022-12-24T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T20:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785983"},"modified":"2022-12-24T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T21:03:57","slug":"the-more-physical-exercise-one-gets-the-less-severe-covid-19-is-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-more-physical-exercise-one-gets-the-less-severe-covid-19-is-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The More Physical Exercise One Gets, the Less Severe COVID-19 Is: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-more-physical-exercise-one-gets-the-less-severe-covid-19-is-study%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>People who were more physically active before they became infected with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> had a lower risk of developing severe symptoms, a new study of more than 190,000 adults suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajpmonline.org\/article\/S0749-3797(22)00526-8\/fulltext\">published last week<\/a> in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, sought to determine if there is an association between physical activity and less-severe COVID-19 outcomes, regardless of sex, race, or whether patients have chronic health problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main message is that every little bit of physical activity counts,\u201d said Dr. Deborah Rohm Young, the study\u2019s lead author, in a press release. \u201cThe more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-exercise\">exercise<\/a> the better, no matter a person\u2019s race, ethnicity, age, sex, or chronic conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the study, researchers at non-profit health group Kaiser Permanente analyzed the records of 194,191 Southern California adult patients who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 between Jan. 1, 2020, and May 31, 2021. All patients had self-reported their physical activity levels in the two years before their infection, and each of them was categorized ranging from \u201calways inactive\u201d for having 10 minutes or less of exercise per week, to \u201calways active\u201d for having 150 or more minutes of exercise per week.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis showed that patients in the lower physical activity categories were more likely to have adverse COVID-19 outcomes, with those classified as \u201calways inactive\u201d having the highest odds of hospitalization, deterioration, or death.<\/p>\n<p>This trend held true for patients of different sexes, races, and those with underlying chronic conditions such as obesity, hypertention, and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), according to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPre-existing chronic conditions, such as obesity, CVD, diabetes, and hypertension, are strongly associated with COVID-19\u2012related deaths,\u201d the authors noted. \u201cThese data indicate that if a person with chronic disease was infected, the odds of hospitalization, inpatient deterioration event, and death were lowered among those who were engaged in some physical activity before COVID-19 diagnosis, compared with those in the always inactive category.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An important limitation of the study, according to the researchers, is the fact that it relied on self-reported data. With that said, their analysis did lead to a conclusion consistent with previous studies.<\/p>\n<p>One of those studies, <a href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/56\/10\/568\">published in February<\/a> by researchers from South Africa, examined the physical activity of more than 65,000 adults who tested positive for COVID-19 from 19 March 2020 to 30 June 2021. The patients\u2019 COVID-19-related outcomes were matched against their physical activity history, which was recorded by smart devices, clocked gym attendance, and participation in mass sporting events in the two years before the South African government imposed a lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>After accounting for demographic factors and other risk factors, patients in the \u201chigh activity band,\u201d or those who exercised more than 150 minutes per week, were found to be at a 34 percent lower risk of admission, a 41 percent lower risk of ICU admission, a 45 percent lower risk of requiring ventilation and a 42 percent lower risk of death, compared with those with low levels of activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdults with high and moderate physical activity levels had significantly better outcomes than those with low activity when contracting COVID-19,\u201d the researchers said. \u201cThe apparent protective effects of regular physical activity extended to those with concomitant chronic medical conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-gq-pan\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WEB_GQ_PAN.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Pan\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Bill Pan is a reporter for The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who were more physically active before they became infected with COVID-19 had a lower risk of developing severe symptoms, a new study of more than 190,000 adults suggests. 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