Infection and mortality rates of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)are astonishing.As of September 7,2020,more than 27 million people around the world have already been infected,with more than 890 thousand deaths.Hype...Infection and mortality rates of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)are astonishing.As of September 7,2020,more than 27 million people around the world have already been infected,with more than 890 thousand deaths.Hypertension,diabetes,and obesity are among the most reported comorbidities associated with mortality by this disease.All these comorbidities are also strongly associated with physical inactivity and sedentary behavior.On the other hand,it is known that aerobic and resistive exercises are excellent tools to prevent and manage these comorbidities.Hence,physically active people may have a better prognosis if infected by COVID-19.Also,science tried to warn about mortality and morbidity associated to physical inactivity more than 80 years ago.However,physical inactivity habits are getting more prevalent around the world.Reasons for that include social,technology,and economic development that led to large industrialization and urbanization.Along with these changes,both professional and domestic activities became less active.Consequently,health care costs related to hypokinesis are estimated to increase exponentially in various regions of the planet.Now,while facing COVID-19 pandemic,it is time to reinforce the physiological,social,and economic relevance of regular physical exercise.Therefore,urgent reappraisal of our physical inactivity habits should be done,again!展开更多
The lack of population-level data on growth and development of children and adolescents in Ecuador, and the existence of previous data suggesting an alarming increase in the numbers of children presenting overweight o...The lack of population-level data on growth and development of children and adolescents in Ecuador, and the existence of previous data suggesting an alarming increase in the numbers of children presenting overweight or obesity justifies the present cohort study which includes all pupils of municipal schools of Quito aged 9 to 17 years. Follow-up will continue for a minimum of 7 years. This will allow determining the evolution of prevalence of these phenomena and their trends as well as other indices, both physiological and family-related customs, in order to plan appropriate preventive interventions. The present cross-sectional study includes 21 municipal schools, grouped into four health zones, each of which depends on a health centre, also municipal, and which are responsible for the health of pupils in these schools. Of the 6964 pupils studied, 18.7% suffer overweight and 7.9% obesity: 19.3% and 9.7% respectively in boys, compared to 18.2% and 5.4% in girls. The study also assesses family characteristics, degree of sedentarism and nutritional habits: 62.3% declared living in a nuclear family, and 60.5% declared their families to be in the “adolescent” life-cycle stage;91.9% of pupils were sedentary while 5.4% (CI95% 4.87 - 5.94) reported not eating breakfast every day.展开更多
文摘Infection and mortality rates of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)are astonishing.As of September 7,2020,more than 27 million people around the world have already been infected,with more than 890 thousand deaths.Hypertension,diabetes,and obesity are among the most reported comorbidities associated with mortality by this disease.All these comorbidities are also strongly associated with physical inactivity and sedentary behavior.On the other hand,it is known that aerobic and resistive exercises are excellent tools to prevent and manage these comorbidities.Hence,physically active people may have a better prognosis if infected by COVID-19.Also,science tried to warn about mortality and morbidity associated to physical inactivity more than 80 years ago.However,physical inactivity habits are getting more prevalent around the world.Reasons for that include social,technology,and economic development that led to large industrialization and urbanization.Along with these changes,both professional and domestic activities became less active.Consequently,health care costs related to hypokinesis are estimated to increase exponentially in various regions of the planet.Now,while facing COVID-19 pandemic,it is time to reinforce the physiological,social,and economic relevance of regular physical exercise.Therefore,urgent reappraisal of our physical inactivity habits should be done,again!
文摘The lack of population-level data on growth and development of children and adolescents in Ecuador, and the existence of previous data suggesting an alarming increase in the numbers of children presenting overweight or obesity justifies the present cohort study which includes all pupils of municipal schools of Quito aged 9 to 17 years. Follow-up will continue for a minimum of 7 years. This will allow determining the evolution of prevalence of these phenomena and their trends as well as other indices, both physiological and family-related customs, in order to plan appropriate preventive interventions. The present cross-sectional study includes 21 municipal schools, grouped into four health zones, each of which depends on a health centre, also municipal, and which are responsible for the health of pupils in these schools. Of the 6964 pupils studied, 18.7% suffer overweight and 7.9% obesity: 19.3% and 9.7% respectively in boys, compared to 18.2% and 5.4% in girls. The study also assesses family characteristics, degree of sedentarism and nutritional habits: 62.3% declared living in a nuclear family, and 60.5% declared their families to be in the “adolescent” life-cycle stage;91.9% of pupils were sedentary while 5.4% (CI95% 4.87 - 5.94) reported not eating breakfast every day.
