TY - JOUR
T1 - Importance of characteristics and modalities of physical activity and exercise in defining the benefits to cardiovascular health within the general population
T2 - recommendations from the EACPR (Part I)
AU - Vanhees, L
AU - De Sutter, J
AU - GeladaS, N
AU - Doyle, F
AU - Prescott, E
AU - Cornelissen, V
AU - Kouidi, E
AU - Dugmore, D
AU - Vanuzzo, D
AU - Börjesson, M
AU - Doherty, P
AU - EACPR
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - Over the last decades, more and more evidence is accumulated that physical activity (PA) and exercise interventions are essential components in primary and secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease. However, it is less clear whether and which type of PA and exercise intervention (aerobic exercise, dynamic resistive exercise, or both) or characteristic of exercise (frequency, intensity, time or duration, and volume) would yield more benefit in achieving cardiovascular health. The present paper, as the first of a series of three, will make specific recommendations on the importance of these characteristics for cardiovascular health in the population at large. The guidance offered in this series of papers is aimed at medical doctors, health practitioners, kinesiologists, physiotherapists and exercise physiologists, politicians, public health policy makers, and the individual member of the public. Based on previous and the current literature, recommendations from the European Association on Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation are formulated regarding type, volume, and intensity of PA and exercise.
AB - Over the last decades, more and more evidence is accumulated that physical activity (PA) and exercise interventions are essential components in primary and secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease. However, it is less clear whether and which type of PA and exercise intervention (aerobic exercise, dynamic resistive exercise, or both) or characteristic of exercise (frequency, intensity, time or duration, and volume) would yield more benefit in achieving cardiovascular health. The present paper, as the first of a series of three, will make specific recommendations on the importance of these characteristics for cardiovascular health in the population at large. The guidance offered in this series of papers is aimed at medical doctors, health practitioners, kinesiologists, physiotherapists and exercise physiologists, politicians, public health policy makers, and the individual member of the public. Based on previous and the current literature, recommendations from the European Association on Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation are formulated regarding type, volume, and intensity of PA and exercise.
KW - Cardiovascular Diseases
KW - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW - Exercise
KW - Humans
KW - Physical Fitness
KW - Risk Assessment
KW - Risk Factors
KW - Risk Reduction Behavior
U2 - 10.1177/2047487312437059
DO - 10.1177/2047487312437059
M3 - Article
C2 - 22637742
SN - 2047-4873
VL - 19
SP - 670
EP - 686
JO - European journal of preventive cardiology
JF - European journal of preventive cardiology
IS - 4
ER -