ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
A Rapid Review on the Influence of COVID-19 Lockdown and Quarantine Measures on Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the General Population.
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- Highly stressful global event affecting health sciences students: A longitudinal qualitative study.PloS one · 2025Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mortality Rates From Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases in Taiwan: An Interventional Time Series Study.International journal of public health · 2025Article
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- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular mortality and contrast analysis within subgroups.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- Cardiovascular Risk and Lifestyle: comparison between teaching workers in Portugal and Brazil.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024Article
- Risk profiles for smoke behavior in COVID-19: a classification and regression tree analysis approach.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- Changing Epidemiology and Functional Outcomes of Inpatient Rehabilitation in Asian Traumatic Brain Injury Cases before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Sociodemographic Variation in Children's Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2023Article
- Health Care Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Cardiovascular Practitioner.The Canadian journal of cardiology · 2023Review
- Association of the COVID-19 pandemic with changes in objectively measured sedentary behaviour and adiposity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2023Article
- Impact of public restrictive measures on hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic: existing evidence and long-term implications.Clinical kidney journal · 2023Review
- Hypertension care during the COVID-19 pandemic in an integrated health care system.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Preceding coronavirus outbreaks resulted in social isolation, which in turn is associated with cardiovascular consequences. Whether the current COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts cardiovascular health is unclear. The aim of the rapid review was to investigate, whether COVID-19 lockdown influences modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (i.e., physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour, smoking, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, obesity, bad blood lipids, and hypertension) in the general population. Medline and EMBASE were searched until March 2021. Title, abstracts, and full texts were screened by one reviewer and 20% by a second reviewer. Only studies using probability sampling were included in order to ensure the representativeness of the target population. Data extraction and critical appraisal were done by one reviewer and double-checked by another reviewer. We identified 32 studies that fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Findings show that physical activity decreased, and sedentary behaviour increased among all age groups during the COVID-19 lockdown. Among adults, alcohol consumption increased, dietary quality worsened, and the amount of food intake increased. Some adults reported weight gain. Studies on children and adolescents were sparse. This rapid review found a high number of epidemiological studies on the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on modifiable cardiovascular risk factors, but only a few used probability sampling methods.
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