The effect of BMI and physical activity levels on the duration of symptomatic days with Covid-19 infection
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Abstract
Regular exercise is known to boost immunity, increase immune response to fight infection, as well as speeding up recovery times and healing processes. This study seeks to assess if exercising regularly pre-SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and/or BMI status has an effect on recovery time.
A total of 215 people infected with COVD-19 from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took part in this study (age 36±16 years, mass 72±15 kg, stature 166±11 cm). Only 10 patients were physically active and fulfil WHO physical activity requirement (Age 30±7 years, Mass 77±9 kg, Stature 176±1 cm).
There was a significant difference in recovery time between active and inactive patients (P = 0.00) with active patients’ recovery 2.7 times faster than inactive patients. Active patients showed a lower BMI level (p = 0.043).
Anthropometric measurement characteristics and the fitness level could be used in decision making scenarios for the estimation of the risk of complications in patients with COVID-19.
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Covid-19 physical active patients shows faster recovery time.
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Active patients recorded a BMI of over 25kg/m 2 , recovered faster than those inactive patients with similar BMI’s.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.21.20179499: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: All participants provided fully informed written consent before engaging with the experiment.
IRB: This study was approved by the Al Qassim University Ethics Committee and was conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationReco…SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.21.20179499: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: All participants provided fully informed written consent before engaging with the experiment.
IRB: This study was approved by the Al Qassim University Ethics Committee and was conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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