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Physical activity and cardiovascular disease

Abstract:

Coronary artery diseases (CAD) are main cause of morbidity and mortality in western world. Multiple risk factors are involved in CAD, among them, a sedentary life style or low physical activity level is a well-recognized modifiable risk factor. Numerous investigations had explained both, organism adaptations during the exercise and benefits in different system and metabolic routes of the body. Throughout the last decades, some questionnaires have been developed with the aim to measure physical degree practice and to indicate CAD risk level in a sedentary person. Many of these instruments are validated internationally showing to be easily applicable and perfectly accessible to scientist, which does not justify its low current exploit, because perhaps by ignorance of their existence. Physical activity constitutes an essential gear in bio-psycho-social human health; this one can become the base of lifestyle change aimed to CAD risk factors reduction and to optimize the quality of life.