Key result
COVID-19 quarantine is linked to higher cardiovascular risk driven by unhealthy lifestyle, inactivity, and anxiety.
Why the study?
Quarantine measures implemented to contain COVID-19 cause lifestyle changes, including reduced physical activity and unhealthy diet, which carry long-term cardiovascular disease risks.
The perspective highlights the need to promote home-based physical activity, healthy diets, and psychological well-being during COVID-19 quarantine to mitigate the long-term increase in cardiovascular risk.
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Supports lifestyle interventions during quarantine; leaves open prospective confirmation of CV risk reduction.
COVID-19 is causing a global pandemic with a high number of deaths and infected people. To contain the diffusion of COVID-19 virus, Governments have enforced restrictions on outdoor activities or even collective quarantine on the population. One important consequence of quarantine is a change in lifestyle: reduced physical activity and unhealthy diet. 2019 guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease indicate that "Adults should engage in at least 150 minute per week of accumulated moderate-intensity or 75 minute per week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity (or an equivalent combination of moderate and vigorous activity) to reduce ASCVD risk." During quarantine, strategies to further increase home-based physical activity and to follow a healthy diet should be implemented. Quarantine carries some long-term effects on cardiovascular disease, mainly related to unhealthy lifestyle and anxiety. Following quarantine a global action supporting healthy diet and physical activity is mandatory to encourage people to return to good lifestyle.
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Mattioli et al. (2020) conducted a review in Cardiovascular risk during COVID-19 quarantine. Quarantine and isolation was evaluated. Quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic increases cardiovascular risk due to unhealthy lifestyle changes, reduced physical activity, and increased anxiety.
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