{"id":951,"date":"2023-01-11T02:18:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T02:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/?page_id=951"},"modified":"2023-01-12T20:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:46:35","slug":"american-society-for-preventive-cardiology-clinical-practice-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/?page_id=951","title":{"rendered":"American Society for Preventive Cardiology &#8211; Clinical Practice Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The American Journal of Preventive Cardiology published on October 13, 2022 &#8211; <strong>Physical Activity, Cardio-respiratory Fitness and Cardiovascular Health: A clinical practice statement of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology: Physical Activity, cardio-respiratory fitness, minimum and goal intensities for exercise training, prescriptive methods, and special patient populations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>This &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State-of-the-Art Review<\/span>&#8221; included citations of supportive published research findings and conclusions from 167 published studies in acknowledged, reputable, medical\u00a0 and exercise physiology scientific journals.<\/h3>\n<h3>The purpose and recommendation of the &#8220;clinical practice statement&#8221; was summarized in the introductory comments as follows:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>\n<h3>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">prescription of exercise<\/span> for individuals with and without cardiovascular disease (CVD) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should be scientifically-based<\/span> yet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">adapted to the patient<\/span>.\u00a0 This scientific statement reviews the clinical and physiologic basis for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">prescription of exercise<\/span>, with specific reference to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">volume of physical activity<\/span> (PA) and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">level of cardio-respiratory fitness<\/span> (CRF) that confer significant and optimal cardio-protective benefits.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>The volume of regular physical activity (PA) and measured level of cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF) of an individual reduces their risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).\u00a0 Accordingly, low levels of physical activity or habitual physical inactivity and corresponding low levels of measured cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF) increase the individual&#8217;s risk of CHD.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The following conclusions were offered:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Although physical inactivity represents a leading cause of death worldwide, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">beneficial effects of structured exercise<\/span> and\/or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">increased lifestyle physical activity<\/span> (PA) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are often underestimated<\/span> by many clinicians and the public at large.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Consequently, the health burden of <strong>physical<\/strong> <strong>inactivity<\/strong> continues to grow with technological advances, suboptimal community landscape planning and inadequate emphasis during most clinical encounters.\u00a0 The latter represents missed opportunities to counsel individuals using proven behavioral interventions to combat our increasingly <strong>hypokinetic (<em>i.e. too little regular\/ habitual movement or activity by individuals<\/em>)<\/strong> environment.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Clinicians and allied health professionals play a trusted and influential role in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">counseling their patients to be more physically active<\/span>.\u00a0 These efforts should be complemented by making <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">self-responsibility of the patient<\/span> (i.e. meeting certain incentivized health metrics such as regular &#8220;moderate and vigorous <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">physical activity<\/span>&#8220;) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a greater priority<\/span> in the evolving health care coverage environment.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>The prescription of exercise has become increasingly scientific.\u00a0 Guidelines are available regarding the appropriate intensity, frequency and duration of exercise&#8230;&#8230; However, the key beneficiary is often overlooked &#8211; the patient.\u00a0 Consequently, maintaining the commitment (<em>of the patient<\/em>) can be challenging, leading to a decline in exercise adherence and effectiveness (<em>by the patient<\/em>).<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Accordingly, for the vast majority of patients who are not physically active, the prescription ( <em>of achievable and safe regular and habitual &#8220;physical activity&#8221;<\/em> ) remains unfilled.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This Clinical Practice Statement can be viewed at the link, below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Amer-Journ-Prevent-Cardio-101322.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Amer-Journ-Prevent-Cardio-101322<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Journal of Preventive Cardiology published on October 13, 2022 &#8211; Physical Activity, Cardio-respiratory Fitness and Cardiovascular Health: A clinical practice statement of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology: Physical Activity, cardio-respiratory fitness, minimum and goal intensities for exercise training, prescriptive methods, and special patient populations This &#8220;State-of-the-Art Review&#8221; included citations of supportive published &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/?page_id=951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Society for Preventive Cardiology &#8211; Clinical Practice Statement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/951\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exermetrx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}