Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis
A sedentary lifestyle is one of the five major risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) along with hypertension, abnormal values of blood lipids, smoking and obesity. After an acute myocardial infarction, risk factors continue to contribute synergically to the clinical progression and prognosis...
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| author | Domenico Scrutinio Fabio Bellotto Rocco Lagioia Andrea Passantino |
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| description | A sedentary lifestyle is one of the five major risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) along with hypertension, abnormal values of blood lipids, smoking and obesity. After an acute myocardial infarction, risk factors continue to contribute synergically to the clinical progression and prognosis of CHD. Regular physical exercise has been shown to improve exercise capacity and quality of life, to reduce symptoms and to decrease the risk of new coronary events in patients with CHD. Regular physical activity with its favourable effects on coronary risk factors, endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, tendency to thrombosis, on autonomic tone and myocardial ischemia, may play a role in reducing the risk of new coronary events and death. In view of the clinical benefits yielded and its well-documented cardioprotective mechanisms, regular physical activity should be regarded, by general practitioners and cardiologists, as a true and effective form of therapy for patients with CHD. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e406c09957f142d3ac75ef0c55983f1c2022-12-22T00:30:41ZengPAGEPress PublicationsMonaldi Archives for Chest Disease1122-06432532-52642005-06-0164210.4081/monaldi.2005.591Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosisDomenico Scrutinio0Fabio Bellotto1Rocco Lagioia2Andrea Passantino3IRCCS Fondazione “Salvatore Maugeri”, Divisione di Cardiologia, Istituto di Cassano delle Murge (BA)Dipartimento di Scienze Cardiologiche, Toraciche e Vascolari dell’Università di PadovaIRCCS Fondazione “Salvatore Maugeri”, Divisione di Cardiologia, Istituto di Cassano delle Murge (BA)IRCCS Fondazione “Salvatore Maugeri”, Divisione di Cardiologia, Istituto di Cassano delle Murge (BA)A sedentary lifestyle is one of the five major risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) along with hypertension, abnormal values of blood lipids, smoking and obesity. After an acute myocardial infarction, risk factors continue to contribute synergically to the clinical progression and prognosis of CHD. Regular physical exercise has been shown to improve exercise capacity and quality of life, to reduce symptoms and to decrease the risk of new coronary events in patients with CHD. Regular physical activity with its favourable effects on coronary risk factors, endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, tendency to thrombosis, on autonomic tone and myocardial ischemia, may play a role in reducing the risk of new coronary events and death. In view of the clinical benefits yielded and its well-documented cardioprotective mechanisms, regular physical activity should be regarded, by general practitioners and cardiologists, as a true and effective form of therapy for patients with CHD.https://www.monaldi-archives.org/index.php/macd/article/view/591physical activitycoronary heart diseaseprognosis |
| spellingShingle | Domenico Scrutinio Fabio Bellotto Rocco Lagioia Andrea Passantino Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease physical activity coronary heart disease prognosis |
| title | Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis |
| title_full | Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis |
| title_fullStr | Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis |
| title_short | Physical activity for coronary heart disease: cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis |
| title_sort | physical activity for coronary heart disease cardioprotective mechanisms and effects on prognosis |
| topic | physical activity coronary heart disease prognosis |
| url | https://www.monaldi-archives.org/index.php/macd/article/view/591 |
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