Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: A regular exercise routine may significantly decrease the chances of being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 disease, a recently published research study shows.
The research study is published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The research study examined a sample size of 194,191 adult participants who tested positive for COVID-19 disease between January 2020 and May 2021. The study participants were asked to self-report their exercise routines at least three times in the two years before contracting the coronavirus.
The always passive group was defined as getting 10 minutes or less of exercise a week; mostly passive meant between 10 and one hour per week; some activity ranged between one hour and 150 minutes per week; consistently active translated into a median of 150 minutes or more a week and always active equaled over 150 minutes a week on all self-assessments.
Exercise and COVID-19
Those who had less than 10 minutes of physical activity per week were 91 percent more likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 infection and 291 percent more likely to die from the disease than those who were consistently active, reported by the Medical Daily.
“The advantages of reducing physical inactivity should lead to its recommendation as an additional pandemic control strategy for all, regardless of chronic disease or demographics status,” the researchers of the study argued.
About 2 percent of patients were vaccinated before a COVID-19 infection.
