Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Risk of Coronavirus Disease 2019 - 24/05/23
Abstract |
Introduction |
Data on the associations of prepandemic physical activity and sedentary behavior with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) severity, particularly milder illness, have been limited.
Methods |
We used data from 43,913 participants within the Nurses’ Health Study II and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study who responded to periodic COVID-related surveys from May 2020 through March 2021. History of physical activity from the prepandemic period was assessed as the metabolic equivalents of task (MET)-hours per week of various activities of different intensity and sedentary behavior assessed from reports of time spent sitting from questionnaires completed 2016-2017. Multivariable logistic regression models were fitted to calculate the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity, as well as predicted COVID-19 defined using a validated symptom-based algorithm.
Results |
Higher levels of prepandemic physical activity were associated with a lower risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Compared to participants with <3 MET-hours per week, the multivariable-adjusted OR was 0.86 (95% CI: 0.74, 0.99; P trend =.07) for those with ≥27 MET-hours per week. Higher physical activity levels were also associated with lower risk of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection (OR: 0.84; 95% CI: 0.72, 0.99; P trend = .05) and predicted COVID-19 (OR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.78, 0.97; P trend = .01). Longer time sitting at home watching TV (OR: 0.85; 95% CI: 0.73, 0.97) or for other tasks (OR: 0.78; 95% CI: 0.66, 0.92) was associated with a lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Conclusions |
Our findings support a protective association between prepandemic physical activity and lower risk and severity of COVID-19.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : COVID-19, Physical activity, SARS-CoV-2 infection, Sedentary behavior
Plan
Funding: This work was supported by grants U01 CA176726, U01 HL145386, U01 CA167552, and P30 ES000002 from the National Institutes of Health, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean's Fund for Scientific Advancement: Acceleration Award, and Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness COVID-19 Response Fund Award. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the report, and decision to submit the paper for publication. |
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Conflicts of Interests: None. |
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Authorship: All authors had access to the data and a role in writing this manuscript. |
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