Importance of characteristics and modalities of physical activity and exercise in defining the benefits to cardiovascular health within the general population: recommendations from the EACPR (Part I)

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.

U2 - 10.1177/2047487312437059

DO - 10.1177/2047487312437059

M3 - Journal 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 -