International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 14/Dec/2021;35(1):25-7.

Exercise Is Medicine! How to Safely Return to Sports after COVID-19? A Meta-Analysis and a Practical Flowchart for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment may Help you

Clea Colombo ORCID logo

DOI: 10.36660/ijcs.20210202

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 and social distancing measures necessary to prevent coronavirus infection, cardiovascular sequelae in individuals recovering from COVID-19 may contribute to the delay in resuming exercise. Cardiovascular complications, including myocarditis, are relatively common in patients affected by SARS-CoV-2. Although the occurrence of myocarditis as a consequence of COVID-19 was initially described in hospitalized patients with severe presentation of the disease, subsequent studies have reported its occurrence in individuals with mild COVID-19 and even in asymptomatic patients.

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Exercise Is Medicine! How to Safely Return to Sports after COVID-19? A Meta-Analysis and a Practical Flowchart for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment may Help you

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