*Researchers recommend walking 30 minutes a day, five days a week at a moderate pace, as consumers who regularly exercise had the best chance of beating COVID-19, while people who were inactive did much worse

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A fresh Kaiser Permanente study has affirmed that exercise can significantly lower the risk of experiencing poor Coronavirus (COVID-19) outcomes in affected consumers.

It was gathered the study, led by investigators in Kaiser Permanente Southern California, in the US, involved nearly 50,000 people with COVID-19.

The study finding indicated that of this group, 6.4 percent were consistently active and 14.4 percent were consistently inactive; the remainder fell into the 鈥渋nconsistently active鈥� category.

The researchers found that patients who regularly exercised had a sharply lower risk of hospitalisation, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and death.

The odds for death were 2.49 times greater for patients who were consistently inactive compared with patients who were consistently active.

The risk of poor COVID-19 outcomes was still relatively lower for those who were only somewhat physically active.

Dr. Robert E. Sallis, a family and sports medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, stated: 鈥淭his is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity.

“Kaiser Permanente’s motivation is to keep people healthy, and this study truly shows how important that is during this pandemic and beyond.

鈥淧eople who regularly exercise had the best chance of beating COVID-19, while people who were inactive did much worse.”

As regards the protective effects of exercise, the researchers said the strong link between exercise and better COVID-19 outcomes remained even when other variables were taken into account.

Co-author Deborah Rohm Young also said: “Even after we included variables, such as obesity and smoking in the analysis, we still saw inactivity was strongly associated with much higher odds of hospitalisation, ICU admission and death, compared with moderate physical activity or any activity at all.

According to the experts, physical activity is already known to protect consumers from a host of health problems.

They submit their findings suggest that exercise remains critically important during the pandemic.

Sallis recommended walking 30 minutes a day, five days a week at a moderate pace.

He noted: 鈥淭hat will give you a tremendous protective effect against COVID-19鈥� amoderate pace鈥� means you鈥檙e too winded to sing but can still talk.

“I continue to believe that exercise is medicine that everyone should take, especially in this era of COVID-19,” said he.

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