Cardiorespiratory fitness and lifestyle on severe COVID-19 risk in 279,455 adults: a case control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The impact of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and other lifestyle-related factors on severe COVID-19 risk is understudied. The present study aims to investigate lifestyle-related and socioeconomic factors as possible predictors of COVID-19, with special focus on CRF, and to further study whether these factors may attenuate obesity- and hypertension-related risks, as well as mediate associations between socioeconomic factors and severe COVID-19 risk.

Methods

Out of initially 407,131 participants who participated in nationwide occupational health service screening between 1992 and 2020, n = 857 cases (70% men, mean age 49.9 years) of severe COVID-19 were identified. CRF was estimated using a sub-maximum cycle test, and other lifestyle variables were self-reported. A

SUBMITTER: Ekblom-Bak E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524225 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature