Among COVID-19 patients, a lack of exercise is linked to more severe symptoms and a higher risk of death, according to a study covering nearly 50,000 people who were infected with the virus.
Indeed, compared to other modifiable risk factors such as smoking, obesity or hypertension, "physical inactivity was the strongest risk factor across all outcomes," the authors concluded. To see whether a lack of exercise increases the odds of severe infection, hospitalisation, admission into an intensive care unit , and death, the researchers compared these outcomes in 48,440 adults in the United States infected with Covid-19 between January and October 2020.
Some 15 percent described themselves as inactive , nearly 80 percent reported "some activity" , and seven percent were consistently active in keeping with national health guidelines .
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