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ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2020

The Urgent Need for Recommending Physical Activity for the Management of Diabetes During and Beyond COVID-19 Outbreak.

Isabela Roque Marçal, Bianca Fernandes, Ariane Aparecida Viana, Emmanuel Gomes Ciolac

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Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Isabela Roque MarçalExercise and Chronic Disease Research Laboratory (ECDR), Department of Physical Education, School of Sciences, Campus Bauru (UNESP), São Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil.
Bianca FernandesExercise and Chronic Disease Research Laboratory (ECDR), Department of Physical Education, School of Sciences, Campus Bauru (UNESP), São Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil.
Ariane Aparecida VianaExercise and Chronic Disease Research Laboratory (ECDR), Department of Physical Education, School of Sciences, Campus Bauru (UNESP), São Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil.
Emmanuel Gomes CiolacExercise and Chronic Disease Research Laboratory (ECDR), Department of Physical Education, School of Sciences, Campus Bauru (UNESP), São Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes is the second most prevalent non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is highly associated with increased incidence of disease severity and mortality. Individuals with diabetes and poor glycemic control have an even worse prognosis. Despite of the need/effectiveness of social distancing measures (i.e.: home confinement, quarantine and/or lockdown) during COVID-19 outbreak, preliminary findings showed an increase in negative behaviors during COVID-19 home confinement (i.e.: ~33.5% reduction in physical activity, ~28.6% (~3.10h) increase in sedentary behavior (i.e.: daily sitting, reclining and lying down time), and more unhealthy food consumption and meal pattern), which may have important clinical implications. For example, we estimated that this reduction in physical activity can increase the cases of type 2 diabetes (from ~7.2% to ~9.6%; ~11.1 million cases per year) and all-cause mortality (from ~9.4% to ~12.5%; ~1.7 million deaths per year) worldwide. Few weeks of reduction in physical activity levels result in deleterious effects on several cardiometabolic (i.e.: glycemic control, body composition, inflammatory cytokines, blood pressure, vascular function…) and functional parameters (i.e.: cardiorespiratory/muscle fitness, balance, agility…). In contrast, physical activity and exercise are important tools for preventing and treating diabetes and others NCDs. Home-based exercise programs are useful, safe and effective for the management of diabetes, and could be widely used during COVID-19 outbreak. In this context, there is an urgent need for recommending physical activity/exercise, during and beyond COVID-19 outbreak, for improving the management of diabetes, as well as to prevent the increase in global burden of COVID-19, diabetes and others NCDs.

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ExerciseCOVID-19Diabetes MellitusDisease OutbreaksHealth PromotionHumansNeeds AssessmentPractice Guidelines as TopicSARS-CoV-2burden of diseasedisease severityexercisemortalitynoncommunicable chronic diseasespandemic (COVID-19)

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PMID33250859
PMCPMC7673403
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