Those who exercise for at least 30 minutes on most days are about four times more likely to survive COVID-19 than sedentary people, according to a study by Robert Sallis, a clinical professor at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, in Los Angeles.
Sallis studied the relationship of exercise and coronavirus outcomes among nearly 200,000 adults in the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system in southern California, reseñó The Washington Post.
Context: Other research conducted by Salli in 2021 found that Kaiser patients who rarely exercised were at greater risk of serious outcomes from the COVID-19including death, than people of the same age who were quite active.
- Science already offers sufficient evidence that exercising regularly and moderately increases the immune response and helps avoid respiratory infections or to a faster recovery.
- In a 2011 studyadults who exercised regularly were almost half as likely to contract a cold or similar infections, compared to inactive people.
- According to the study, the most active were also 40% less likely to report that their illnesses were persistent.
The data: The new study that Sallis conducted this year found that patients who never they exercised they were 391% more likely to die after contracting COVID-19, compared to active men and women.
- The study published in December in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine had a record of 194,191 patients who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 between January 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021.
- The researchers looked at improving outcomes from COVID-19, not preventing coronavirus infections.
- But even among people who exercised less frequently (10 or 15 minutes a week) that exercise translated into a reduction in the chances of suffering from severe coronavirus.