By Regina Shaffer
ARLINGTON, Texas — Physical fitness is a vital sign for overall health, and prescribing even small amounts of exercise to increase cardiorespiratory fitness can reduce mortality and CVD risk, according to a speaker.
The 2018 federal physical activity guidelines suggest 150 to 300 minutes per week of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes per week of vigorous physical activity, Carl “Chip” Lavie Jr., MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP, professor of medicine, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and preventive cardiology, director of the Exercise Testing Laboratory and staff cardiologist in the Echocardiographic Laboratory at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School–The University of Queensland School of Medicine, said during a presentation at the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention. Read the full article in Healio.